It would be nice if setting the localisation before emerging would be possible. Something like "USE=linguas_de" as with dev-lang/php or app-office/libreoffice by pulling the right drupal-<version>.<language>.po file and putting it into the corresponding folder. If no language is set explicitly the LINGUAS setting in make.conf or LANG in 02locale could be used. background: At the moment drupal-7.12 is in the tree. AFAIK there exists no german(?) language .po-file for version 7.11 (drupal-7.11.de.po). Since I'd like to use portage (for obvious reasons) to put drupal on my system - instead of downloading etc. the german version 7.12 from http://www.drupalcenter.de/ - please add 7.11 to the tree. Reproducible: Always
Sorry, I mean: AFAIK there only exists a german .po file for 7.11 but not for 7.12.
Given how easy it has become to install language packs through drupal's admin interface and how challenging it might be for us to do it through portage, I'm closing this as WONTFIX.