Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing glibc's default locale.gen

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 15:53:01 Matt Turner wrote:
> No user has a need for more than some small subset of the total
> available locales.

the rub is in which locales the user cares about

> I filed bug [1] to request the ability to select locales in catalyst
> spec files, but no responses after six months -- which is totally
> typical of catalyst bugs.

i thought catalyst had a way of overlaying custom files.  if it does, couldnt 
you simply overlay the /etc/locale.gen file ?

> I commented in bug [2] suggesting that we perhaps reduce the default
> locale.gen to only 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' or some other limited subset.
>
> The default subset should be sufficient for a large number of users,
> and users whose locales aren't shipped by default would simply be able
> to edit /etc/locale.gen (which I'm sure almost everyone does anyway)
> to select their desired locale and then run locale-gen to generate it
> and remove unwanted locales.

i dont think the subset should ever be arbitrarily reduced by whatever we feel 
like picking.  you could however make an argument about filtering the default 
set based on LINGUAS that my brain matter would be open to accepting.  feel 
free to open a glibc enhancement bug with a patch or PoC in that direction.
-mike