From 9cdb6734bfa83fe3476b096f8bbe851567330240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 08:02:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [packages] If locale is empty, pretend it is 'en'.

 - Otherwise packages like vi-$LOCALE will be retained in the
   package list, which will cause install problems.
---
 src/modules/packages/main.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/modules/packages/main.py b/src/modules/packages/main.py
index 60ede34fa..3105474f8 100644
--- a/src/modules/packages/main.py
+++ b/src/modules/packages/main.py
@@ -318,7 +318,10 @@ def subst_locale(plist):
     """
     locale = libcalamares.globalstorage.value("locale")
     if not locale:
-        return plist
+        # It is possible to skip the locale-setting entirely.
+        # Then pretend it is "en", so that {LOCALE}-decorated
+        # package names are removed from the list.
+        locale = "en"
 
     ret = []
     for packagedata in plist: