+# ian: on flidas this gives an error: update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+# # in case the locales are already included inside the base file (Ubuntu)
+# if [ -f $target/usr/sbin/locale-gen ]; then
+# $ROOTCMD dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive locales
+# exit
+# fi
+
+# if we want to install locales, install them now