as part of my on going effort to make the glibc experience suck less, ive decided to kill USE=userlocales and /etc/locales.build aspects.
so what do you get in return ? a bastardized Gentoo version of Debian's locale-gen. now you edit /etc/locale.gen with a slightly diff syntax from /etc/locales.build and the build will automatically use it. but why !? because now you can update your locales on the fly without having to re-emerge glibc. simply tweak /etc/locale.gen to your liking and run `locale-gen`. presto chango, all done. for you peeps who want to give this a shot, sync up and try glibc-2.4-r2. hopefully i wont have [m]any more changes to make before i release it into ~arch. -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
