Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> > wrote: >> How can I select different linguas for individual packages with this >> approach? > > Why would you want to?
As programmer I am used to read English manuals and for most command line tools it is the only up-to-date documentation. Development tools or system configuration with translated manuals is simply awful for me. Therefore I've set LINGUAS to "en" in make.conf and run my shells with "LANG=en_US.UTF-8". Situation changes for GUI stuff like office applications where I feel more comfortable as "normal" user. KDE is configured for German language and for a lot of those apps I've explicitly set linguas_de in package.use. For libreoffice and calligra I've even added linguas_fr to get French spelling support. For me it is currently very convenient to look simply at the use flags of a package to see which languages will be supported. Gnucash is the only application I had to set environment variables for (using package.env) to get German language support (and it took me a while to find this and get it right). I may have missed other packages that do not use IUSE_EXPAND, simply because I am not aware of the support. Cheers, Jörg
