> Please explain why do you need this locale? You mean apart from the fact that that it's supposed to be installed, as evidenced by the upstream build? (1) I'm in an en@ locale. (2) I want to create a minimal grub2 image, with only the needed locale -- not populated with unnecessary bloat of unneeded locales, which is what you get if you do not specify a single locale > It is disabled due to this error during build There's no such error when building upstream source. It's clearly an artifact of the pkg'ing build.