Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

[Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>]

On 8/19/2010 9:33 AM, Andrea Conti wrote:
>> On the other hand LINGUAS is still a general variable AFAIK and not
>> portage specific.
> 
> LINGUAS is strictly portage-specific. It's used to control the
> compile-time inclusion of languages and/or locales for packages which
> have that kind of option (i.e. OpenOffice, KDE, Firefox and many
> others); as such it is generally set in make.conf, although it can be
> controlled on a per-package basis as others have said.

It's more accurate to say LINGUAS is "build-time specific".  Portage is
not the only build process/package manager/configuration system/coffee
maker that knows what LINGUAS means.  It's the "official" (as far as
there is such a thing) place to store the list of gettext translations
you want on your system, and most autotools-based builds and binary
package managers also recognize it.

--Mike