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
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