[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [RFC] Masterplan for solving LINGUAS problems

[Jörg Schaible]

Mike Gilbert wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@×××.de>
> wrote:
>> How can I select different linguas for individual packages with this
>> approach?
>
> Why would you want to?

As programmer I am used to read English manuals and for most command line 
tools it is the only up-to-date documentation. Development tools or system 
configuration with translated manuals is simply awful for me. Therefore I've 
set LINGUAS to "en" in make.conf and run my shells with "LANG=en_US.UTF-8".

Situation changes for GUI stuff like office applications where I feel more 
comfortable as "normal" user. KDE is configured for German language and for 
a lot of those apps I've explicitly set linguas_de in package.use. For 
libreoffice and calligra I've even added linguas_fr to get French spelling 
support.

For me it is currently very convenient to look simply at the use flags of a 
package to see which languages will be supported. Gnucash is the only 
application I had to set environment variables for (using package.env) to 
get German language support (and it took me a while to find this and get it 
right). I may have missed other packages that do not use IUSE_EXPAND, simply 
because I am not aware of the support.

Cheers,
Jörg