These days, the C.UTF-8 locale is guaranteed to be available. This makes installation of "locales" unneeded for someone content with an English language system.
This serves the purpose of that "locales-base" you wanted. With this functionality built-in into libc, there's no need for localepurge to depend on "locales" anymore. -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory prices. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

