On 4 Jun 2001, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> > Using wildcards is inherently dangerous.
>
> Maybe so, but "inherently dangerous" is still different from "doesn't
> work".  The funny thing is, I've never received a single complaint
> about Wget setting ALL_LINGUAS dynamically (at configure-time).

> > I think all source files and all installable files ought to be
> > listed explicitly.
>
> Normally, I would agree.  I'm taking this as an exception to the rule.
>

Yeah, setting ALL_LINGUAS dynamically has the advantage that no
modification is needed whenever new .po files are added. If the
ALL_LINGUAS=...... is doing something nasty, then it's most probably that
users are not getting software from authentic places, but from other
modified sources.

Abel

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