On 8/19/10, Elmar Hinz <oss.el...@googlemail.com> 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
