Andrew Savchenko posted on Tue, 31 May 2016 20:08:10 +0300 as excerpted: > If we are going to do an instant move from LINGUAS to L10N (no graced > period as discussed here on another thread), why to rename variable in > the first place?
Because the LINGUAS var is hopelessly tangled up in various build systems... in different ways for different build systems so it's nigh impossible to automatically untangle it. By switching to a var (L10N being the proposed name) that's not actually used in strange ways by the build systems, gentoo's settings won't have unexpected implicit results due to getting tangled up with the build system, only the explicit results managed by the gentoo-level code in the ebuilds/eclasses. That of course being the whole problem LINGUAS turned into such a mess in the first place. In hindsight the mess could have been predicted, but as they say, hindsight is 20/20... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
