On Thursday, March 19, 2015 10:15:58 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491010 registers the fact that 
> specifying -nocolor to localepurge causes it to stop, and a diff is included 
> to fix the problem. But that was 16 months ago, no-one's done anything since 
> and the fault is still present.
> 
> I haven't done any patching of ebuilds before, so I have some learning to 
> do. Meanwhile, does anyone here have a ready fix?

Looks like Jan-Matthias does.
You can just apply the patch directly to the localepurge script.

patch /usr/bin/localepurge localepurge-0.5.4-fix_option_parsing.patch

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Fernando Rodriguez