[Nix-dev] Why is glibc built w/o locales?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Peter Simons wrote:

> is there any particular reason why locales are disabled in the default
> configuration for glibc?

Mostly to allow a few hundred megabytes to be shaved off the NixOS installation
CD.  (It was particularly bad on x86_64-linux, where we also need a 32-bit
Glibc.  So we got two copies of the locales.)

BTW, on non-NixOS systems you don't have to install glibcLocales; you can just
set $LOCALE_ARCHIVES to /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/