[Nix-dev] Why is glibc built w/o locales?

[Lluís Batlle]

Locales can be installed using another derivation, other than glibc.
Then they can be referred to with the LOCALE_ARCHIVE environment variable.

2009/7/1 Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to>:
> Hi,
>
> is there any particular reason why locales are disabled in the default
> configuration for glibc?
>
> I realize that locales can be enable via nix-pkgs.config, but doing that
> means that I won't be able to use any binaries from Hydra. I'd like to
> avoid that, if possible. I might not be the only one with that problem.
>
> Take care,
> Peter
>
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