On Wed, 24 May 2006 13:17:54 +0200
Harald van Dijk <truedfx@gentoo.org> wrote:

> LINGUAS is not Gentoo-specific at all. Gentoo didn't even come up with
> it. It's a gettext variable, which is re-used (with an annoyingly
> slightly different meaning) by Gentoo.

Thanks for the clarification - I only looked through the gnu libc info
pages for it (since we had been talking about locales) so I didn't
find it.

> That said, if a package can only install one translation at a time,
> and it detects this at compile-time via LC_*, it's sort of braindead
> at least. (A creates a package for B. B would like the Italian
> version. A does not know any Italian. There is a build error. Because
> the system forced LC_* to be set to Italian, A has no idea what the
> errors mean.)

Fair enough.  

-- 
Kevin F. Quinn