diff --git a/package/base/sysfiles/sysfiles.conf b/package/base/sysfiles/sysfiles.conf
index 7060c2ac9..97948ac95 100644
--- a/package/base/sysfiles/sysfiles.conf
+++ b/package/base/sysfiles/sysfiles.conf
@@ -135,6 +135,13 @@ EOT
 	echo "Installing 'network' init script ..."
 	install_init network $confdir/network.init
 
+	echo "Exporting LINGUAS environment variable ..."
+	if [ "$ROCKCFG_LINGUAS" == "all" ] ; then
+		echo "# LINGUAS=" > $root/etc/profile.d/linguas
+	else
+		echo "LINGUAS=\"$ROCKCFG_LINGUAS\"" > $root/etc/profile.d/linguas
+	fi
+
 	if [ $stagelevel -gt 1 ] ; then
 		echo "Running postsysfiles.in scripts ..."
 		for x in $base/misc/*/postsysfiles.in
diff --git a/scripts/config.in b/scripts/config.in
index feeb20d4f..34211fbd8 100644
--- a/scripts/config.in
+++ b/scripts/config.in
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ block_begin 7
 
 	if [ -f target/$ROCKCFG_TARGET/config.in ]
 	then . target/$ROCKCFG_TARGET/config.in ; fi
+
+	text 'Linguas (translations)' ROCKCFG_LINGUAS 'de es fr it'
 block_end
 
 echo "## BUILDENV_SETTINGS_BEGIN" >> config/$config.$swpid/config
diff --git a/scripts/parse-config b/scripts/parse-config
index 3f926974d..eefd87829 100644
--- a/scripts/parse-config
+++ b/scripts/parse-config
@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ unset LANG ${!LC_*}; export LC_ALL=C; umask 022
 export BUILDCC="cc"   BUILD_CC="cc"   HOSTCC="cc"   HOST_CC="cc"
 export BUILDCXX="c++" BUILD_CXX="c++" HOSTCXX="c++" HOST_CXX="c++"
 
+if [ "$ROCKCFG_LINGUAS" == "all" ] ; then
+	unset LINGUAS
+else
+	export LINGUAS="$ROCKCFG_LINGUAS"
+fi
+
 unset CPP ARFLAGS ASFLAGS CFLAGS CXXFLAGS CPPFLAGS FFLAGS LDFLAGS
 unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_PRELOAD FLWRAPPER C_INCLUDE_PATH CONFIG_SITE
 unset DISPLAY BASH_ENV CDPATH GLOBIGNORE IFS MAIL MAILPATH