Openoffice.org hosts binary distributions of the application suite in a couple of different languages. There is no way to emerge one of these. The ebuild for openoffice-bin is for english only Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. LANGUAGE="49" emerge -v openoffice-bin 2. 3. Actual Results: The enlish binary was installed Expected Results: The german binary should be retrieved and installed I propose a system language flag that can be set in order to emerge programs like openoffice, mozilla, ... in a language of choice without touching locale settings. Should i live in sweden but want my system in german, that should be possible.
Created attachment 36542 [details] Ebuild for localized openoffice-bin-1.1.2 Had this same problem and after realising that openoffice actually hosted the binary localized versions, I hacked around a bit in the 1.1.2 ebuild, and succesfully ran an emerge resulting in a Dutch version of Openoffice. 1. download ebuild to /usr/local/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/ 2. Edit ebuild, set LANGUAGE to your needs. If unsure, check the language code in the downloads section at www.openoffice.org (OOo_1.1.2_LinuxIntel_install_<LANGUAGE>.tar.gz) 2. copy -r /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/files/1.1.2 /usr/local/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/files/1.1.2 3. ebuild /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice-bin-1.1.2.ebuild digest (this should download the OOo binaries) 4. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge openoffice-bin I tried Dutch, German and French. It doesn't work for swedish, because there is no localized binary for 1.1.2 (only 1.1.2rc3)
STep 3 should ofcourse be: 3. ebuild /usr/local/portage/app-office/openoffice-bin/openoffice-bin-1.1.2.ebuild digest (using the portage overlay rather than the standard binary)
We cannot use this ebuild since it breaks digest check. We should use LINGUAS solution at least (LINGUAS is treated like USE flags by Portage at the moment). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44944 ***
