Alright, thanks for all the info. I'll leave this be for now until the
C.UTF-8 support in upstream glibc is released. If they manage to reduce the
size sufficiently to have it built-in, there might not even be anything to
change on Arch's side.
Daan
On 6/23/20 3:02 PM, Daan De Meyer via arch-general wrote:
>> This is not about locale-gen. locale-gen (and /etc/locale.gen) are
>> Arch-specific custom scripts which IIRC were copied from Debian once
>> upon a time, which just run localedef. I actually use a much simpler
>> locale-gen program which
> Very firm -1 to any approach that involves creating hundreds of new
> packages which each provide a tiny file.
You're right, this would be overkill. Even when limiting to only UTF-8 we'd
still have 313 packages.
> This is not about locale-gen. locale-gen (and /etc/locale.gen) are
> Arch-specifi
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