Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 19:11:21 Alan McKinnon napisał(a): > On 11/01/2014 18:52, Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 18:15:09 > > Alan McKinnon napisał(a): > > > >> A far better method from a user point of view is to install the linguas > >> the user explicitly asked for. Your pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/01/2014 18:52, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 18:15:09 > Alan McKinnon napisał(a): > >> A far better method from a user point of view is to install the linguas >> the user explicitly asked for. Your proposal as worded will be taken at >> first glance to mean "install all lin

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 18:15:09 Alan McKinnon napisał(a): > A far better method from a user point of view is to install the linguas > the user explicitly asked for. Your proposal as worded will be taken at > first glance to mean "install all linguas, but not XX" as most users > won't see the MA

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 17:21:46 Luis Ressel napisał(a): > On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:01:34 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > > > That's a side goal. > > > > I was thinking of something like: > > > > INSTALL_MASK="linguas -linguas_XX" > > > > that would remove all linguas except for language XX.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Luis Ressel
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:01:34 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > That's a side goal. > > I was thinking of something like: > > INSTALL_MASK="linguas -linguas_XX" > > that would remove all linguas except for language XX. That would be enough for me. A bit of a duplication of information, but if it e

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/01/2014 18:01, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 16:56:37 > Luis Ressel napisał(a): > >> I've got an additional proposal: It would be interesting if this >> feature could also make use of the LINGUAS var for selectively >> filtering /usr/share/man and and /usr/share/locale, as

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-11, o godz. 16:56:37 Luis Ressel napisał(a): > I've got an additional proposal: It would be interesting if this > feature could also make use of the LINGUAS var for selectively > filtering /usr/share/man and and /usr/share/locale, as most ebuilds > don't respect this variable nativel

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Luis Ressel
I've got an additional proposal: It would be interesting if this feature could also make use of the LINGUAS var for selectively filtering /usr/share/man and and /usr/share/locale, as most ebuilds don't respect this variable natively. -- Luis Ressel GPG fpr: F08D 2AF6 655E 25DE 52BC E53D 08F5 7F

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Peter Stuge
Michał Górny wrote: > INSTALL_MASK="systemd bash-completion" > > What are your thoughts? It seems like this will generally duplicate all -USE flags. Would it make sense to instead have a single setting which changes the meaning of USE to be that everything not USEd is install-masked? Rather t

[gentoo-dev] RFC: storing predefined INSTALL_MASK directory lists in repos

2014-01-11 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, all. Some time ago I wrote a small tool called install-mask. As the name suggests, it was intended to help with manipulating INSTALL_MASK. I think that its most important feature was ability to use pre-defined mask lists to easily mask unwanted directories without getting into the details.