diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
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@@ -6579,6 +6579,53 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       install, the build system does not generate an error. This variable
       is generally not user-defined.
 
+   :term:`PACKAGE_NO_LOCALE`
+      The :term:`PACKAGE_NO_LOCALE` variable can be set to "1" to prevent the
+      :term:`OpenEmbedded Build System` from splitting the locales found in the
+      :term:`PKGD` directory into split packages.
+
+      For example, the ``quilt`` recipe automatically produces split packages
+      after the :ref:`ref-tasks-package` task is run. Taking a look inside the
+      :term:`WORKDIR` directory of ``quilt``:
+
+      .. code-block:: console
+
+         $ ls -1 packages-split/
+         guards
+         guards-doc
+         quilt
+         quilt-dbg
+         quilt-dev
+         quilt-doc
+         quilt-locale-de
+         quilt-locale-fr
+         quilt-locale-ja
+         quilt-locale-ru
+         quilt-ptest
+         quilt-src
+         quilt-staticdev
+
+      We can see the ``quilt-locale-*`` packages were automatically generated.
+      Setting :term:`PACKAGE_NO_LOCALE` to "1" would produce the following
+      packages:
+
+      .. code-block:: console
+
+         $ ls -1 packages-split/
+         guards
+         guards-doc
+         quilt
+         quilt-dbg
+         quilt-dev
+         quilt-doc
+         quilt-locale
+         quilt-ptest
+         quilt-src
+         quilt-staticdev
+
+      The ``quilt-locale`` package contains the merged content of the previous
+      ``quilt-locale-*`` packages.
+
    :term:`PACKAGE_PREPROCESS_FUNCS`
       Specifies a list of functions run to pre-process the
       :term:`PKGD` directory prior to splitting the files out