On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:58:06 +0100
Piotr Szymaniak <[email protected]> wrote:

> localepurge will be removed from portage [1]. As I was (/am) heavy
> user of it I found it funny that "linguas takes care of the proper
> locale installation" [2]. Maybe it should, but there's some major
> failure in lots of packages.

I don't think we should drop it unless there's a reason to.  It works fine
and people obviously use it (me too!).

> So I filled few dozen bugs about this, but it's not always an easy task
> to make a package respect LINGUAS. As we talked about it on #gentoo-bugs
> there were few suggestions to solve this issue.
> 
> Not directly related to solving, but will help (by ssuominen):
> make a tracker bug for offending packages

Yes, please.  Once these get fixed then we can drop localepurge.  And please
ignore hyperactive bug wranglers who think they get to decide when you've
filed "enough" bugs.  We want these reports.


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