diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/local.conf.sample.extended b/meta-poky/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
index d407ffb499..0560de8576 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/local.conf.sample.extended
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@
 # less than 128MB RAM.
 #ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION = "1"
 
+# If GLIBC_SPLIT_LC_PACKAGES is set to a non-zero value, convert
+# glibc-binary-localedata-XX-YY to be a meta package depending on
+# glibc-binary-localedata-XX-YY-lc-address and so on. This enables
+# saving quite some space if someone doesn't need LC_COLLATE for
+# example.
+#GLIBC_SPLIT_LC_PACKAGES = "1"
+
 # Set GLIBC_GENERATE_LOCALES to the locales you wish to generate should you not
 # wish to perform the time-consuming step of generating all LIBC locales.
 # NOTE: If removing en_US.UTF-8 you will also need to uncomment, and set