I've built openoffice-2.0.0 from source when it became stable. It launches with the apparent Hebrew locale settings, despite all my locale settings set to en_US.utf8. I am guessing that it built with only the Hebrew locale since my LINGUAS="he". If I recall correctly, en_US is supposedly built by default without being explicityly set in LINGUAS (I've never seen another package have this issue). Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. LINGUAS="he" emerge openoffice 2. wait 3 days for compile to finish 3. open oo.o writer Actual Results: No default en/en_US locale is built for openoffice Expected Results: Launched in en_US locality Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3n i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3n i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="he" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cpudetection crypt curl divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 i8x0 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java joystick jpeg junit kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib linguas_he userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
en_US is default if you don't specify any LINGUAS, if you don't want your OOo in hebrew than don't ask the ebuild to do so by providing LINGUAS="he", if you want both, add en_US to your LINGUAS. This is no bug, closing