On 8/19/2010 9:33 AM, Andrea Conti wrote: >> On the other hand LINGUAS is still a general variable AFAIK and not >> portage specific. > > LINGUAS is strictly portage-specific. It's used to control the > compile-time inclusion of languages and/or locales for packages which > have that kind of option (i.e. OpenOffice, KDE, Firefox and many > others); as such it is generally set in make.conf, although it can be > controlled on a per-package basis as others have said.
It's more accurate to say LINGUAS is "build-time specific". Portage is not the only build process/package manager/configuration system/coffee maker that knows what LINGUAS means. It's the "official" (as far as there is such a thing) place to store the list of gettext translations you want on your system, and most autotools-based builds and binary package managers also recognize it. --Mike
