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#70280
[PATCH 0/5] Reducing system size: locales and initrd
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Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 14:24:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
[...]
>> I would call it a semantic change rather than a regression (a feature
>> rather than a bug :-)).
>>
>> It’s more in line with what we’re doing elsewhere: the default is to
>> include ‘locale’ in the locale definitions, but we let the user override
>> that if they wish.
>
>
> It is a regression when with the same OS config.scm, my GNOME is no
> longer in German. Perhaps I’m missing something, but the only gain from
> making it configurable to not include the configured default locale in
> locale-definitions would be that it becomes possible to not include the
> default locale language’s utf8 encoding, but utf8 is good for everyone.
OK, let’s drop this patch then.
I was focusing on interface consistency but in this particular case what
you describe suggests interface consistency is a secondary concern.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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