Re: Lack of locales in build environment

[Ludovic Courtès]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> From my point of view it would be good to include en_US.UTF-8 by
> default for two reasons: (i) we already are at 7 (4+3) packages
> requiring an UTF-8 locale and, I guess, that this number is doomed to
> increase in the following years. (ii) This is another small step in
> making maintenance easier by providing an environment setting that
> sometimes helps.

Right.

How about this: we make a package with a bunch of locales, and in
core-updates we add a specification for $LOCPATH to glibc.

For those packages, we would just add that locales package to their
inputs and be done with it.

WDYT?

Ludo’.