Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

[David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com>]

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On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:50:02 +0200, Elmar Hinz wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] LINGUAS:

>2010/8/18 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@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.

Not really.

>Has it anything to do with portage at all?

The LINGUAS variable is used by many packages that use
internationalization (i18n) or localization (l10n).  It is the standard
place for an ebuild to check what National Language Support (NLS) is
required for a package.  Check which packages you have installed that
have the "nls" USE flag.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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