Re: [gentoo-desktop] OpenOffice and the LINGUAS variable

[Justin Denick]

Well, I guess you could hack it by either removing openoffice from the
/var/.../world file and updating it alone or by using emerge --skip-first

--skipfirst
              This option is only valid when used with --resume.  It removes
              the first package in the resume list so that a merge may  con-
              tinue  in  the presence of an uncorrectable or inconsequential
              error.  This should only be used in cases where  skipping  the
              package will not result in failed dependencies.

You could also emerge openoffice with the --oneshot

--oneshot (-1)
              Emerge  as  normal,  but  do not add the packages to the
              world profile for later updating.

With Gentoo there are six ways to do anything you want



On 7/19/06, Tobias Heinlein <tobias-heinlein@××××××××.de> wrote:
>
> My whole system is (of course) in English. But my mum also works with
> OpenOffice and some other programs and wants them in German. To compile
> OpenOffice in German I set LINGUAS="de" in /etc/make.conf . Everything
> fine, OpenOffice is in German. But when I wanna emerge any other package
> this will be emerged in German, too. I only want OpenOffice and some
> specific programs in German, I want everything else in English.
> When I remove LINGUAS="de" from /etc/make.conf and do a world-update I
> get the following output:
>
>
> # emerge -avuDN world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies -
> ... done!
>
> [ebuild   R   ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.3  USE="gnome java"
> LINGUAS="-af -as_IN -be_BY -bg -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de* -el -en -en_GB
> -en_ZA -es -et -fa -fi -fr -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -it -ja -km -ko -lt
> -mk -ml_IN -mr_IN -nb -nl -nn -ns -or_IN -pa_IN -pl -pt_BR -ru -rw
> -sh_YU -sk -sl -sr_CS -st -sv -sw_TZ -ta_IN -te_IN -tg -th -ti_ER -tr
> -ur_IN -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
>
>
>
> Is there any possibility to set LINGUAS="de" only for OpenOffice and
> some specific other programs?
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