On 2019-01-28 08:46:44 -0800 (-0800), Ross Vandegrift wrote: [...] > This is what I'm used to, and the size seems like a compelling > reason to use locales over locales-all. But I'm not really clear > on the consequences. An example: on my workstation, and indeed on most/all of my personal systems, I rely on en_DK.UTF-8 to get English with ISO 8601 time and date. Some programs crash outright with cryptic errors when an unknown locale is encountered (yes it's a bug in those programs which should get addressed eventually), so when I ssh into a virtual machine which lacks locales-all I get to re-discover the negative effects of my preference there. Once I remember that's what triggers the problem behavior I can of course either install locales-all or fix sshd_config to not use remotely-supplied locales or just tweak my environment temporarily, but it's still a surprising effect which other users are quite probably unable to identify and correct on their own. -- Jeremy Stanley
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