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On 6/7/11 9:53 PM, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> Building 400~ locales is not fun on mips when building stages. |
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Do you have some data to quantify "not fun"? How long does it take? |
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> No user has a need for more than some small subset of the total |
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> available locales. |
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> I filed bug [1] to request the ability to select locales in catalyst |
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> spec files, but no responses after six months -- which is totally |
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> typical of catalyst bugs. |
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> I commented in bug [2] suggesting that we perhaps reduce the default |
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> locale.gen to only 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' or some other limited subset. |
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It makes sense to me, especially for "exotic" arches. It seems that |
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locale-gen is cheap anyway on x86 and amd64, where it probably matters most. |
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