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 1Om5Z9-0002Xu-RP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:54:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05917E07C3; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDAFE07C3 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so1434795ewy.40 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:53:09 -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=zB26otiLhsZpNnS7AmxOLvIJ2jN3cENNaFh6FFzHtFw=; b=N4ERGrwHCQXBf/rpSZqtO8Zr/qZeok6mrwnFCLCkwOCPc7B9L1dDfYyMpuEuc7NIPJ ZWauvScgQZS9Vlyjg5A/qGkw27hh3vWYpICA+nqZxlx9JV3YvZe5MLhkh+XqBFf+FAGV Pzvu/s+MMH6EVpiL6wAd0qjiuA6fNAcYnmfLs= 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=quZxIHanO0i9YW7rrle77gEsjmbT2z3zaOHOAnYMpg2dg4XV1j/cI7F+c6+qrdmAU7 xbh6gHItlpmCka+QmjfsxxRpI0oEVWnhqgSeJBeCUCvsQ4sQl4G7qrvP5ka3yTcjeawl 7iX5dcOuexjh+asRdAVToOnAMnWYpdZ+STnKs= 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 10.213.14.78 with SMTP id f14mr727199eba.79.1282225989027; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.4.76 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:53:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C6D32B4.6030702@alyf.net> References: <201008182339.17677.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87pqxeu6s8.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4C6D32B4.6030702@alyf.net> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:53:08 +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: c35b12ba-3853-4b31-a475-3e0846dca52b X-Archives-Hash: 15f07b37379ac0cd2580eac217b552a3 2010/8/19 Andrea Conti : >> On the other hand LINGUAS is still a general variable AFAIK and not >> portage specific. > > LINGUAS is strictly portage-specific. Really? Researching the web I understand it origins from gettext and portage has implemented it. If I understand right, it would still matter if you compile something without portage. But is the following generalization correct? * LINGUAS is the compile time setting (for multiple languages) * LANG is the runtime setting (for the current language). Al