https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=156477
--- Comment #59 from Mike FABIAN mfabian@redhat.com --- (In reply to Ivan Chavero from comment #58)
How about the /usr/share/i18n directory, is this something that could be reduced? it's almost the size of 3 Alpine Linux containers
# du -h /usr/share/ | grep "[0-9]M" | grep i18n 3.3M /usr/share/i18n/charmaps 6.3M /usr/share/i18n/locales 9.5M /usr/share/i18n
maybe ship this directory in a separate package?
We have this in Fedora 24 and rawhide, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238406
There are glibc-langpack-.. packages now for each language containing folders in /usr/lib/locale/ for that language, one glibc-all-langpacks package which contains all locales in a single package using the /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive database and a package glibc-locale-source which contains the /usr/share/i18n directory.