In keeping with the theme of a customized distribution, I suggest that the only locale that needs to be installed is the locale the user is in. Vlad and I worked out a change to the ebuild to install en_US instead of all locales. However, I'd suggest a LANG variable or something, which, when set, limits locale installation to the relevant locale(s). Default all definitely works for everyone, and allows for installation without thought or research. However, it's bloated and time consuming.
As a user who switches locales I feel that the ability to have multiple locales installed is necessary. Basically I'm trying to say that as long as I have the option of installing multiple locales then I have no problem with people having hte ability to install just one locale
Well, if you look at the instructions, you'll see that they come at the install stage, not the locale generation stage. I have to admit that my knowlege of this comes from my time with linuxfromscratch. Essentially, the change I made to my personal copy of glibc ebuild was to comment out the command to install all locales, and add a command to install only the en_US locale. Perhaps a two-locale user could replace this with two commands to install two locales. My question is: does the use of two locales justify the installation of -all- of them?
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Thilo: let me know if you have a good idea on how to address this issue.
a whole lot of people have been talking about this and i just realized that this one still was hanging around in my buglist - sorry for that.
Isn't debians localepurge an option ? See http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/localepurge.html for more info. It not only purges unnecessary locales, but manpages as well.
lappy glibc # localepurge localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 6400K Thank you ! ;)
Has there been any progress made on this bug? I believe it is still relevant.
Is this still relevant? Doesn't Gentoo use the 2.3.x of glibc these days?
I don't think the version of glibc is the focus of the bug, rather, the fact that all locales are installed by default with no clean way of specifying which ones are desired.
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