Bug 459350

Summary:	usage of IUSE="linguas_*" breaks detection of unset LINGUAS variable
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Julian Ospald <hasufell>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	leio
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	459934

Description Julian Ospald 2013-02-26 19:20:09 UTC

gettext convention is:
a) unset LINGUAS => install all languages
b) empty LINGUAS => install none

The problem is, when we have any linguas_* flag in IUSE (e.g. when additional dependencies are needed), then portage will always set LINGUAS variable. In case none is enabled (which could be a) or b) ), this will result in:

LINGUAS=""

thus possibly overwriting the users choice of an _unset_ LINGUAS.

This behavior is not present when IUSE does not contain any linguas_*.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-02-27 00:29:27 UTC

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=207554dd7d2796f1fa4da41725154d17048a194d

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-03-02 04:31:03 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.11.53 and 2.2.0_alpha164.