From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Om4gi-0007MI-DH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:57:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 931B7E0831; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575CAE0831 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyf6 with SMTP id 6so1370214eyf.40 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:57:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=22r6aJbmdJlqvD6q++T7y1aByZjns3JZuKMthyBGki4=; b=rtugkIZK2cTvwC7a/8CnFS3hC+HIDGHLQAd7qedOf/dw7ge96njFseKOXGncMt5U4d 6d4XG0ce/OQ2U6Iwc/okT7pdRtIDxYOa1mbES9SI9mJr4nT5HZJ56ViIqSa54+NbaiAN xpcF1ihYyze2nKEz+CmYdAmhZoouCAC3QANd4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=SoZ/724rYoMbSxx+a9MIDMSlobGIwJ/gIllGsMD4llBSw7Cq3U/6JVekwqSH12Qqwf 7PjUcUXtOAbWMY7Yxy+/wvFbSGzMa39ilF9I6SY++t8dQ5RBq5argPpWqS0EIwjhp2n+ 0T6iHmuMgoIsRqC6oqMti9G6CgJ1sHxyoQCu8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.13.133 with SMTP id c5mr122170eba.26.1282222634953; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.4.76 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:57:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87pqxeu6s8.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> References: <201008182339.17677.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87pqxeu6s8.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:57:14 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS From: Elmar Hinz To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 26edd1ea-3a10-4a4e-99ed-89563f6fc3c8 X-Archives-Hash: eda219a486ef43e20d33eb403f18612d >> Even than, LINGUAS has rather to do with OpenOffice. >> >> Has it anything to do with portage at all? > > Several packages, not just OpenOffice, can include/support different > languages. Portage uses the value of LINGUAS to tell these packages > which languages to include/support. > When Portage evaluates this variable it makes some sense. On the other hand LINGUAS is still a general variable AFAIK and not portage specific. So shouldn't it be set in a general location like time and locales? Al