On 19 August 2010 14:48, Elmar Hinz <oss.el...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2010/8/18 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:25 on Wednesday 18 August 2010, Elmar > Hinz > > did opine thusly: > > > >> The gentoo wiki suggests in different places to set the LINGUAS > >> environment variable in make.conf. > >> > >> What has LINGUAS todo with make? I would expect it in rc.conf near the > >> UNICODE setting. > > > > > > It has nothing to do with make. It has everything to do with portage. > > > > Even than, LINGUAS has rather to do with OpenOffice. > > Has it anything to do with portage at all? > > It has something to with packages that has localization support, thus everything to with portage. Global linguas flags are set in make.conf as LINGUAS="en de ru" and application specific ones can be set in package.use as www-client/firefox linguas_en_GB app-office/openoffice-bin linguas_en_GB linguas_de
