On Sat, 21 May 2016 11:19:07 -0400 [email protected] wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:41:28AM +0200, Micha?? Górny wrote > > > I see the following possibilities: > > > > 1. We start explicitly listing linguas_* in all ebuilds, no matter how > > tiny they are. Maintainers are required to keep IUSE up-to-date > > and users are forced to rebuild a lot. This is also a QA violation > > in terms of invalid use of USE flags. > > > > 2. We hack-unset LINGUAS in ebuilds. This is a lot of effort, easy to > > miss and probably would need to repeated for every single phase anyway > > due to how global variables are handled in PMS. Additionally, it may > > break at some point since those variables are likely expected to be > > read-only anyway. > > > > 3. We remove LINGUAS from USE_EXPAND and stop using it. If ebuilds have > > a good reason to use flags for localization, we introduce a new, > > non-colliding USE_EXPAND for that. We also ask users to replace LINGUAS > > with the new flag in their make.conf files. LINGUAS gets the original > > upstream behavior back, and we eventually discourage it in favor of new > > INSTALL_MASK features (WiP) [2]. > > > > 4. We fix build systems not to do magic depending on whether LINGUAS > > is unset or set-to-empty. Instead, we could some special special value > > like '-' to signify not installing localizations at all. But that's > > upstream thing to do, and breaks backwards compatibility with existing > > systems disabling localizations. > > > > > > Your thoughts? > > 5. An reversed variant of INSTALL_MASK in make.conf, e.g. > LOCALE_ALLOW="foo bar fubar" > > which would block installing files in /usr/share/locale/* and > /usr/share/man/* EXCEPT for... > > /usr/share/locale/foo > /usr/share/locale/bar > /usr/share/locale/fubar > /usr/share/man/foo > /usr/share/man/bar > /usr/share/man/fubar
This can be accomplished using inclusion/exclusion logic included in the patches I've recently sent for Portage. INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/locale -/usr/share/locale/foo" -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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