On 08/19/2010 06:53 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: > 2010/8/19 Andrea Conti <a...@alyf.net>: >>> On the other hand LINGUAS is still a general variable AFAIK and not >>> portage specific. >> >> LINGUAS is strictly portage-specific. > > Really? > > Researching the web I understand it origins from gettext and portage > has implemented it. If I understand right, it would still matter if > you compile something without portage. > > But is the following generalization correct? > > * LINGUAS is the compile time setting (for multiple languages) > * LANG is the runtime setting (for the current language).
Yeah, but with the caveat that LANG is the generalization for all the LC_* variables.
