Bug 476756 – sys-apps/systemd: provide a /etc/locale.conf file with comments about what to put there

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Pacho Ramos 2013-07-13 20:21:04 UTC]

As looks like 02locale and localeconf have the same format (simply setting some LC_* related variables), why ebuild doesn't simply copy it if existing instead of telling people to manually do that?

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2013-07-13 20:29:22 UTC]

Sounds reasonable to me. The only danger would be if someone has manually altered /etc/env.d/02locale.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-20 14:56:50 UTC]

(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #1)
> Sounds reasonable to me. The only danger would be if someone has manually
> altered /etc/env.d/02locale.

I think that the kind of stuff that can be put in /etc/env.d/02locale is the same recognized by systemd and, then, if somebody was having strange things there, they will probably don't see a regression as that wasn't neither working properly with openrc

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2013-07-31 21:17:45 UTC]

Err, my 02locale doesn't fit :).

> Note that LC_ALL may not be configured in this file. For
> details about the meaning and semantics of these settings, refer to locale(7).

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-31 21:21:05 UTC]

In that case, I think the best think to do is to provide a file with comments telling people what kind of variables should they try to put there (if I don't misremember, some people even tried to separate langs with "," causing other problems)

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2013-09-18 11:11:58 UTC]

Supposedly fixed through #465468.