Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/23/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> OK, so it's too late again but my current build reminded me to ask >>>about emerging glibc and the section where it does all these different >>>locales. Do I need this stuff? If not how would I tell the system to >>>do only my Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk locale? >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Mark >>> >> >>grep userlocales /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc >>sys-libs/glibc:userlocales - build only the locales specified in >>/etc/locales.build >> >>Zac > > > Thanks Zac. I knew about the locales.build file. What I'm not sure > about (and I'm sure this will sound stupid to experianced programs of > which I am not part of the group) is whether any programs will fail to > run correctly on my machine if I don't build for Japan/France/xxx, or > whether it's critical that I build for both en_US/ISO-8859-1 & > en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8? > > The documentation is good for telling you what controls what but it's > not good for telling you the repercussions of a cefrtain choice. > > Anyway, thanks much, > Mark > > Thanks, > Mark >
AFAIK you only need the locales that you plan to use. You can always use "localedef" to build a locale later if you need it. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
