[MacPorts] #50776: PortGroup/"base" extension suggestion : locale_select

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#50776: PortGroup/"base" extension suggestion : locale_select
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 Reporter:  rjvbertin@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
     Type:  submission   |     Status:  new
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 As suggested elsewhere (https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49051#comment:17)
 I propose a new PortGroup which might inspire an extension of "base".

 The aim is to allow users who don't like or cannot afford to waste disk
 space (on things they don't use) to reduce the number of translations
 installed by ports. A good example is port:VLC : this one consists for
 over 50% of translations, most of which will never be used by the (vast)
 majority of users. That may be "only" around 37Mb, which is why I've
 hesitated a bit to make this proposal. Still, leaving only the en_GB, fr
 and nl translations that overhead shrinks to about 1.2Mb .

 The principle of this PortGroup is simple: if adds a variant (tentatively
 called `langselect`) which adds a post-destroot block that prunes
 translations from ${destroot}${prefix}/share/locale, leaving only
 translations the user is interested in.
 This happens only when the variant is active, of course, but also requires
 the user to list the translation(s) s/he is interested in. Those desired
 translations are read from a list assignment to a variable
 called`keep_languages` in ${prefix}/etc/macports/locales.tcl. A
 locales.conf file would be nicer but I didn't want to spend too much time
 figuring out how to write a parser for that kind of file.

 Currently the code only removes translations from the share/locale
 directory, but one could extend the principle to prune unwanted .lproj
 directories too.

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