Re: [proaudio] Question about locales (Ardour-based)

[Thomas Kuther <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mo, 08.12.08 08:17 "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't know much about locales. My machine has had a problem with
> them until yesterday when I *thought* maybe I had solved them. However
> today when installing Ardour-2.7.1 I see if doing a lot of work
> storing locale data for locales I don't want or need. Is this normal?
> 
> <SNIP>
> mo_builder(["gtk2_ardour/ru_RU.mo"], ["gtk2_ardour/ru_RU.po"])
> po_builder(["gtk2_ardour/it_IT.po"], ["gtk2_ardour/po/it_IT.po",
> "gtk2_ardour/gtk2_ardour.pot"])
> Updating gtk2_ardour/it_IT.po
> ..............................................................................................................Done
> <SNIP>
> 
> I was attempting to set my machine up to handle the 3 listed American
> English locales. Why does Ardour (and possibly other programs) write
> all this locale stuff to disk if it isn't intended to be used? I.e. -
> do I still have a locale problem I need to clean up?
> 
> lightning ~ # locale -a
> C
> POSIX
> en_US
> en_US.iso88591
> en_US.utf8
> lightning ~ #slabtop
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 


Hi,

that's normal behaviour. Most applications install all available
locales they provide, no matter what your glibc supports.

There is a handy tool in portage to get rid of the unneeded ones, if
disk space matters: app-admin/localepurge

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