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 1Om4x5-0008Kk-8o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:14:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6EEEE086F; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pv0-f181.google.com (mail-pv0-f181.google.com [74.125.83.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76509E0888 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg16 with SMTP id 16so1095673pvg.40 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:13:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=+hE8tP/A1vAh4GawbnYRAGQVe7S9xgN4wYjfzQ544qo=; b=fc3rLGp9s3uCWE0rjADYKzKR9oNm9a94EbQF74N0S62C/E/1SiGPZpnHpkutIn3JRU dvpQZjbXsTOKzIsfWrnbfDM9WKJ8XOtT4dyoeBQSe21pbs3EHnzZzicrX/sV42WhvuD8 dsd8Cn3+6GdVsacPJg39lCFAni/oEPFwKVHmo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=mSwEnaPsGZ0w2YTtYYdjoAt6kE3erf+nFT3BXNuqgeNNlVWAsfKgiGCs89pi31s+LE xSfADhiNrEn7G6onZxIZP0i3Fx2E4rRjc6Ed/9eB+nWUnAbGJBXP5XUtr8ZO8hw827U6 TVPcPotIHkCZ8Bq+SmzeBwSvFqSAINuex3qkM= 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 10.142.77.20 with SMTP id z20mr8293509wfa.47.1282223638864; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.198.138 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:13:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201008182339.17677.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87pqxeu6s8.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:13:58 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS From: "Arttu V." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: f1e77c10-a094-44e5-b8e0-fa8b4ce8d914 X-Archives-Hash: dd6223b94c49d850e38767271c5195cf On 8/19/10, Elmar Hinz wrote: >>> 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? No, I think you're mixing up compile-time and run-time values -- and also reading too much into the file names. "make.conf" should really rather be called "portage.conf". That would make much more sense IMHO. :) -- Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors