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+#!/bin/env beesh
+
+# BEE_VERSION locale-en-gb-1-0
+
+## Compiles the en_GB locale (already shipped as source data by glibc, see
+## /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB) into its own non-archive locale directory
+## and packages that directory, instead of writing into glibc's
+## /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.
+##
+## Rationale: locale-archive is itself a file owned by the glibc bee package
+## (see `bee query /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive`). Merging into it with
+## `localedef --add-to-archive` would work, but a future glibc update/reinstall
+## overwrites that file with the package's shipped version and silently drops
+## the merge. A locale installed as its own directory under /usr/lib/locale/
+## is picked up by glibc automatically (it's checked before the archive) and
+## is untouched by glibc package updates, so it survives them.
+
+SRCURL[0]=""
+
+mee_install() {
+    mkdir -p "$D/usr/lib/locale"
+    localedef --no-archive -i en_GB -f UTF-8 "$D/usr/lib/locale/en_GB.UTF-8"
+}
+
+###############################################################################
+##
+## Build & install:
+##     bee install ./locale-en-gb-1-0.be0
+## (needs root for the actual system install step)
+##
+## Verify afterwards:
+##     locale -a | grep en_GB
+##     LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 date
+##
+## To make it the system default, edit /etc/locale.conf separately -
+## this package only makes the locale available, it doesn't set LANG.
+##