On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 07/19/2012 06:14 AM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: >> Could be that Portage re-exports a sanitized >> LINGUAS tough, but I doubt it. > > Portage does sanitize it if there are any linguas_* flags in IUSE, > otherwise it lets the variable pass through without sanitizing it.
That's good; we definitely don't want to "sanitize" it if there are no linuguas_* flags in IUSE. This would break LINUGUAS support for many autotools/gettext based packages, where the autotools code parses LINGUAS directly and the ebuild does nothing with it.