Bug 574318

Summary:	net-print/cups handles LINGUAS incorrectly
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Robert Sharp <bugzilla>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Robert Sharp 2016-02-10 10:04:41 UTC

The CUPS ebuild sets its own default LINGUAS (e.g. ca, cs, de, etc) contrary to expectation - if LINGUAS is not defined the appropriate settings are deduced from the locale or assumed to be none. 

If I set LINGUAS="en" for example, then the ebuild will disable the above LINGUAS as expected but setting this has knock effects with other packages that had acted correctly before. If I set the USE flag "linguas_en" then the ebuild reverts to all its LINGUAS. The only way I can specifically control the LINGUAS used by cups is to disable them all in /etc/portage/package.use:

net-print/cups -linguas_de -linguas_ca -linguas_cs -linguas_es -linguas_fr -linguas_it -linguas_ja -linguas_ru

I would expect CUPS not to pull in all its LINGUAS by default if LINGUAS is not set.

This came to light because the ebuild removed LINGUAS="pt_BR" meaning I have had to re-emerge all cups builds for no reason of interest to me and many others I expect.

Comment 1 charles17 2016-02-10 10:59:34 UTC

(In reply to Robert Sharp from comment #0)
> 
> This came to light because the ebuild removed LINGUAS="pt_BR" meaning I have
> had to re-emerge all cups builds for no reason of interest to me and many
> others I expect.

You could avoid such re-emerge by using "emerge --update --changed-use" 
instead of "emerge --update --newuse".

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2021-08-18 07:00:36 UTC

This looks solved in 2.3.3_p2-r2