On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 02:05:06PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Tuesday, 06 November 2018 at 13:13, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: > > > > > Dear maintainers, > > > > > > I'm working again on implementing > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_glibc-langpacks-all_from_buildroot. > > > The first step is to replace LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 with LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 > > > (and similarly for LANG=, LC_CTYPE=, etc.) in all spec files. This > > > will be backwards and forwards compatible, in the sense that packages > > > that use C.UTF-8 should build OK on older and newer Fedoras. > > > > I think this is a very bad idea. The C.UTF-8 locale is Fedora-specific. > > It is not upstream, and it is known to be broken in many ways. It may > > or may not match what other distributions use. > > > > I have argued for some time that the locale must be upstreamed, but > > unfortunately, I'm notglibc-langpack-minimal getting anywhere. > > Can we use glibc-langpack-en instead of glibc-langpack-minimal and keep > en_US.UTF-8 locale as default? glibc-langpack-en is 6MB, glibc-langpack-minimal is ~0. Pretty much all packages don't need an actual language. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
