On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 02:58:03PM +0200, Micha?? Górny wrote > On Sat, 21 May 2016 11:19:07 -0400 > [email protected] wrote: > > > 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"
Thanks. localepurge cleans up after the fact. Your patches would prevent the problem in the first place, which is a better approach. It also handles systemd files and can be used when some new stuff comes up in future that we haven't thought of yet. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
