From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FVyh5-0005i6-Jx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:29:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k3IMTNTc025737; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:29:23 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3IMRXSd018614 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:27:33 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FVyfU-0000Hn-Q7 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:27:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 6917 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2006 18:08:28 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 18 Apr 2006 18:08:28 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] killing USE=userlocales Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:28:29 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 GEOMAN: IS A RETARD Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604181828.29291.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 2b6e5151-448f-4a1e-9ffb-01c4eccb7fb1 X-Archives-Hash: aa1ac4aa11dac7802ea7e01d79974ac9 as part of my on going effort to make the glibc experience suck less, ive decided to kill USE=userlocales and /etc/locales.build aspects. so what do you get in return ? a bastardized Gentoo version of Debian's locale-gen. now you edit /etc/locale.gen with a slightly diff syntax from /etc/locales.build and the build will automatically use it. but why !? because now you can update your locales on the fly without having to re-emerge glibc. simply tweak /etc/locale.gen to your liking and run `locale-gen`. presto chango, all done. for you peeps who want to give this a shot, sync up and try glibc-2.4-r2. hopefully i wont have [m]any more changes to make before i release it into ~arch. -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list