Stage 1 - Bootstrapping: useful hints

[Parasietje]

I recently found out about localisation. Now, I installed gentoo and found out about the "userlocales" flag on glibc. Unfortunately, USE-flags are filtered out on bootstrapping. So I learned the following flag from the bootstrap.sh script:

STAGE1_USE="userlocales" scripts/bootstrap.sh --verbose

This way, you can define /etc/locales.build before even bootstrapping, so those unuseful locales won't clutter up your system!

[codergeek42]

Setting it in /etc/portage/package.keywords works just fine here. (I finished my bootstrap on a chrooted install about an hour ago.)
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