On 19 August 2010 14:48, Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@googlemail.com> wrote:
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.

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