Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Thursday, 2020-04-30 07:31:51 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> ...
>> [ebuild   R    ] app-doc/gimp-help-2.8.2:2::gentoo  0 KiB
> Thanks for pointing me to a package I hadn't yet installed,  even though
> I have installed "media-gfx/gimp" (but use it rarely).  But installation
> took surprisingly long  because it included tons of messages in unneeded
> laguages.   I have  L10N="en-GB"  in my "make.conf" file,  but this only
> seems to request additional languages.
>
> Is there a way to exclude megabytes  of message texts or manual pages in
> languages I don't understand anyway from being installed, something like
> "L10N="-* en-GB"?   And is there a way to again remove unnecessary lang-
> uages after they have been installed?
>
> Under Ubuntu I used to use a package named "localepurge" which did both.
>
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer
>
>
>


These settings are from AGES ago.  I think they are still in use tho. 


root@fireball / # cat /etc/make.conf | grep lang
LANG="en_US"
root@fireball / # cat /etc/make.conf | grep L10N
L10N="en en-US"
root@fireball / #


You would replace US with GB of course.  Oh, I put a link from
/etc/make.conf to the real one.  I'm used to the old location. :/ 

That help? 

Dale

:-)  :-)