From: vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de   
      
   Aragorn  wrote:   
   >   
   > As for Art's advice that */usr/local* should never contain anything   
   > installed by the distribution, well... it does.  I'm using the 2008.01.19   
   > stage3 tarball by Daniel Robbins, and it installed a whole bunch of stuff -   
   > worth only 288 KB though - in */usr/local,* and I haven't even begun   
   > emerging anything. ;-)   
      
   I don't know about that tarball, but this probably means that these are   
   patches made by Daniel Robbins (and therefore not installed at the   
   usual place). It might also mean that this is simply a bug and should   
   actually have gone to /usr.   
   At least, emerge (if you use the original gentoo tree and not something   
   containing patched ebuilds) will not install anything into /usr/local   
   if it is not a bug. I guess after successfull emerge you can also   
   delete the stuff in /usr/local unless you have a particular reason   
   to keep Daniel Robbins' patches (since I don't know the tarball,   
   I cannot tell what they are for).   
      
   > On account of that, I also saw that a lot of files in strange charactersets   
   > were installed in several of the branches of */usr.*   
      
   Before emerging, you should make sure that you set   
     LINGUAS="en" (or whatever language(s) you want)   
   in your /etc/make.conf. Moreover, you should modify /etc/locale.gen   
   according to your wishes before (re)emerging glibc.   
      
   > other than manually hunting down and deleting those files/directories?   
      
   There is a package "localepurge" which contains a script which cleans   
   most of the stuff related to languages not set up in the above way.   
      
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