emerge -F downloads all the language packs even though the languages haven't been selected. nostalgia ~ # emerge -pv openoffice-bin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-oodict-20060706 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.3 [2.0.0] USE="-gnome -java* (-kde%)" LINGUAS="-af% -as_IN% -be_BY% -bg% -bs% -ca% -cs% -cy% -da% -de% -el% -en% -en_GB% -en_ZA% -es% -et% -fa% -fi% -fr% -gu_IN% -he% -hi_IN% -hr% -hu% -it% -ja% -km% -ko% -lt% -mk% -ml_IN% -mr_IN% -nb% -nl% -nn% -ns% -or_IN% -pa_IN% -pl% -pt_BR% -ru% -rw% -sh_YU% -sk% -sl% -sr_CS% -st% -sv% -sw_TZ% -ta_IN% -te_IN% -tg% -th% -ti_ER% -tr% -ur_IN% -vi% -xh% -zh_CN% -zh_TW% -zu%" 123,069 kB Total size of downloads: 123,069 kB nostalgia ~ # But an emerge -F ending up downloading 118MB of language packs(before I cancelled it) 14M OOo_2.0.3rc7_060622_LinuxIntel_langpack_cs.tar.gz 13M OOo_2.0.3rc7_060622_LinuxIntel_langpack_he.tar.gz 15M OOo_2.0.3rc7_060622_LinuxIntel_langpack_ja.tar.gz 13M OOo_2.0.3rc7_060622_LinuxIntel_langpack_lt.tar.gz 12M OOo_2.0.3rc7_060622_LinuxIntel_langpack_sr-CS.tar.gz 14M OOo_2.0.3rc7_060622_LinuxIntel_langpack_th.tar.gz 13M OOo_2.0.3rc7_060622_LinuxIntel_langpack_xh.tar.gz 14M OOo_2.0.3rc7_060622_LinuxIntel_langpack_zh-TW.tar.gz 13M OOo_2.0.3rc7_060622_LinuxIntel_langpack_zu.tar.gz I tried setting the lanugage to english... LINGUAS="en" emerge -F openoffice-bin but it too resulted in it trying to download all the language packs. Had I not noticed it it would have probably done in excess of 800MB of downloads in language packs that wouldn't have been installed!
Yes, that's a feature. You want -f. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146527 ***
