Bug#214898: Bug#133578: gdm: default locale setting

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:13:42PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:

> Just to make it clear to everyone involved -- #133578 is waiting for #214898
> to be fixed in glibc.  I'm not going to parse/use a tool to read the PAM
> configuration file /etc/environment.  That config file is for setting up
> the _login_ environment, not the system boot environment.  I think
> this should be a generic environment file, so that things such as the
> default init script/boot time PATH can be set in one place as well.
> (PATH, for example, is set in 50 different /etc/init.d scripts of 85
> on my system.)

As I said before, I think this is very sad.  It's a little late in the
release process to be completely changing how we handle setting the
default LANG variable (or PATH, etc...).  Setting it in two places is
the wrong answer (since it's guaranteed to cause confusion), and any
other change is too invasive.

It's too bad the real losers here are non-English speakers.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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