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From: Nganon <nganon+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:22:11
Message-Id: AANLkTi=UCDg0FN8qKeg=amC2W-+rP8wDAVUMVX__=RV1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS by Elmar Hinz
1 On 19 August 2010 14:48, Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > 2010/8/18 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>:
4 > > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:25 on Wednesday 18 August 2010, Elmar
5 > Hinz
6 > > did opine thusly:
7 > >
8 > >> The gentoo wiki suggests in different places to set the LINGUAS
9 > >> environment variable in make.conf.
10 > >>
11 > >> What has LINGUAS todo with make? I would expect it in rc.conf near the
12 > >> UNICODE setting.
13 > >
14 > >
15 > > It has nothing to do with make. It has everything to do with portage.
16 > >
17 >
18 > Even than, LINGUAS has rather to do with OpenOffice.
19 >
20 > Has it anything to do with portage at all?
21 >
22 >
23 It has something to with packages that has localization support,
24 thus everything to with portage.
25
26 Global linguas flags are set in make.conf as
27 LINGUAS="en de ru"
28
29 and application specific ones can be set in package.use as
30 www-client/firefox linguas_en_GB
31 app-office/openoffice-bin linguas_en_GB linguas_de