* bug#18085: libc locales moved to separate package
@ 2014-07-22 21:45 Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-20 13:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2014-07-22 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 18085
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The ‘locales’ output of libc is huge, and contains way more locale data
than anyone needs.
We should follow roughly what other distros do, that is:
• Provide just 1 or 2 locales by default, in the ‘locales’ output (say
en_US.utf8 and en_US.iso88591).
• Add a parametric package that builds the specified locales, which
users can choose to install and add to their $LOCPATH.
The big ‘locale-archive’ will actually be ignored when $LOCPATH is set,
as per locale/findlocale.c:
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/* We really have to load some data. First we try the archive,
but only if there was no LOCPATH environment variable specified. */
if (__glibc_likely (locale_path == NULL))
{
struct __locale_data *data
= _nl_load_locale_from_archive (category, name);
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Ludo’.
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* bug#18085: libc locales moved to separate package
2014-07-22 21:45 bug#18085: libc locales moved to separate package Ludovic Courtès
@ 2015-04-20 13:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2015-04-20 13:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 18085-done
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> The ‘locales’ output of libc is huge, and contains way more locale data
> than anyone needs.
This was done in Nov. 2014, commit 97e1120.
Ludo’.
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