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From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:27:39
Message-Id: 87pqxeu6s8.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS by Elmar Hinz
1 Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com> writes:
2
3 > 2010/8/18 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>:
4 >> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:25 on Wednesday 18 August 2010, Elmar Hinz
5 >> did opine thusly:
6 >>
7 >>> The gentoo wiki suggests in different places to set the LINGUAS
8 >>> environment variable in make.conf.
9 >>>
10 >>> What has LINGUAS todo with make? I would expect it in rc.conf near the
11 >>> UNICODE setting.
12 >>
13 >>
14 >> It has nothing to do with make. It has everything to do with portage.
15 >>
16 >
17 > Even than, LINGUAS has rather to do with OpenOffice.
18 >
19 > Has it anything to do with portage at all?
20
21 Several packages, not just OpenOffice, can include/support different
22 languages. Portage uses the value of LINGUAS to tell these packages
23 which languages to include/support.

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS Florian CROUZAT <gentoo@××××××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com>