First draft of news item for proceeding with LINGUAS USE_EXPAND rename to L10N independently of the INSTALL_MASK feature additions.
I hope English natives will improve the sentence flow and grammar here :) Perhaps there's also a better title than with the technical USE_EXPAND mention. Title: LINGUAS USE_EXPAND renamed to L10N Author: Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2016-06-06 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 The LINGUAS USE_EXPAND has been renamed to L10N, to avoid a conceptual clash with the standard gettext LINGUAS behaviour. L10N controls which extra localization support will be installed. This is usually used in case of extra downloads of language packs. If you have set LINGUAS in your make.conf, you should either copy or rename it to L10N, depending on if you want to filter the supported languages at build time or not via the gettext LINGUAS environment variable behaviour as described below. Note that this filtering does not affect only installed gettext catalog files (*.mo), but also lines of translations in an always shipped file (e.g *.desktop). LINGUAS maintains the standard gettext behaviour and will now work as expected with all package managers. It controls which language translations are built and installed. An unset value means all available, an empty value means none, and a value can be an unordered list of gettext language codes, with or without country codes. Usually only two letter language codes suffice, but can be limited with country codes with a 'll_CC' formatting, where 'll' is the language code and 'CC' is the country code, e.g en_GB. Some rare languages also have three letter language codes. If you want English with a set LINGUAS, it is suggested to list it with the desired country code, in case the default is not the usual en_US. It is also common to list "en" then, in case a package is natively written in a different language, but does provide an English translation for whichever country. A list of LINGUAS language codes is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Language-Codes Note that LINGUAS affects build time, and thus filters what ends up in binary packages. If you are building generic binary packages that should support all available language, you should not set LINGUAS. If you have per-package customizations of LINGUAS USE_EXPAND, you should also rename those from LINGUAS to L10N. This typically means renaming linguas_* to l10n_*. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide has also been updated to reflect this change.
