Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:42:53PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
>    Thanks for joining in. I have mucho craziness in these directories!
> /usr/share/locale has way too much stuff, but it doesn't have what I
> want. It's missing en_US.utf8 and en_US.ISO8859-1. Also, all of what I
> think are the font files are in a directory called charmaps, not
> charsets, like yours: (This is an AMD64 machine so maybe that's part
> of the difference?)
> 
> lightning ~ # ls /usr/share/i18n
> SUPPORTED  charmaps  locales
> lightning ~ #
> 
>    Before I do something stupid, can I erase all this /usr/share stuff
> by hand, then re-emerge glibc, rerun locale-gen to get the right
> stuff. I suspect that since I had weird settings in make.conf, now
> fixed with Dale's help, that now if I re-emerge glibc maybe I'll get
> the right stuff?
> 

My apologies for jumping in kind of late in this thread, and I am not
sure if you have answered this question already, but what do you have
as the content of /etc/locale.gen ?  I ask because this is useful
prior to you issuing emerge glibc again.

Best, 

W
-- 
"You should be excited by this, because it is an equation you can solve."
~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205
Sortir en Pantoufles: up 730 days, 23:59