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_bu....
> > 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