From 9922402de86bc8d04310f8dc273129e483303673 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Igor Velkov <325961+iav@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2026 18:23:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] !fixup cleanup

---
 lib/functions/host/prepare-host.sh | 14 +-------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/functions/host/prepare-host.sh b/lib/functions/host/prepare-host.sh
index 55bbada64e..05d11a3fa6 100644
--- a/lib/functions/host/prepare-host.sh
+++ b/lib/functions/host/prepare-host.sh
@@ -45,19 +45,7 @@ function prepare_host_noninteractive() {
 		offline=true
 	fi
 
-	# fix for Locales settings, if locale-gen is installed, and /etc/locale.gen exists.
-	if [[ -n "$(command -v locale-gen)" && -f /etc/locale.gen ]]; then
-		if ! grep -q "^en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" /etc/locale.gen; then
-			# @TODO: rpardini: this is bull, we're always root here. we've been pre-sudo'd.
-			local sudo_prefix="" && is_root_or_sudo_prefix sudo_prefix # nameref; "sudo_prefix" will be 'sudo' or ''
-			${sudo_prefix} sed -i 's/# en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
-			${sudo_prefix} locale-gen
-		fi
-	else
-		display_alert "locale-gen is not installed @host" "skipping locale-gen -- problems might arise" "warn"
-	fi
-
-	# Use C.UTF-8 locale which is always available in rootfs from the very first command
+	# Use C.UTF-8 locale for the build environment (no generation required)
 	export LANG="C.UTF-8"
 
 	declare -g USE_LOCAL_APT_DEB_CACHE=${USE_LOCAL_APT_DEB_CACHE:-yes} # Use SRC/cache/aptcache as local apt cache by default