Ladislav Slezak composed on 2019-04-23 11:33 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata composed on 2019-04-12 17:16:31 (UTC-0400):
>> I can use one language only, English. Support for anything else means >> repeatedly wasted bandwidth. Was not glibc-locale-base split off into This to me was a rather startling discovery, finding a new basesystem package being installed into a release only a few months from support termination. Was doing this in 15.0 an oversight? >> a separate package in order to reduce such waste? Is a bug report about >> this indicated? I looked and didn't find an existing one. > I'm not aware of any. > I found out that the libyui-ncurses package depends on the glibc-locale [1]. > It was added ~6 years ago [2] to fix a problem with empty UI (no texts > displayed) [3]. > Maybe we could change that to glibc-locale-base, I'm not sure. Could you test > it if > YaST works in the text mode with only glibc-locale-base? ## 15.0 host p5bse # rpm -e --nodeps --noscripts glibc-locale # yast Seems fine to me, including reaching the Languages screen. > What if you use a locale > which is not present? Does it still work? Someone familiar with using something other than English should try this. All I have any familiarity with are en_US, en_DK (Mozilla only, for ISO-8601 date/time) and Posix. > [1] > https://github.com/libyui/libyui-ncurses/blob/2e10bd416572dc7a84e52735ca2c1308179c53ec/package/libyui-ncurses.spec#L52 > [2] > https://github.com/libyui/libyui-ncurses/commit/9a76a7cfec5b7d79cab9ed7f2d85503a6753f286 > [3]... https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=849255 -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
