Elmar Hinz <[email protected]> writes: > 2010/8/18 Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>: >> 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?
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.
