Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] strip down languages from /usr/share/locale
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 11:26 +0100, Alex Magaz wrote:
I've been adapting a script from the debian package localepurge
to work as
post install script. This script purges all languages that doesn't appear in
the locale.nopurge file. It also gives the option to purge man pages
uncommenting MANDELETE option.
Per my mail last week, I think it's far smarter to look at enabling a
(fairly hidden) way of having anaconda set the %__install_langs macro
for rpm so that only the locales you want get installed. There's also
already a (similarly hidden) option to avoid installing files that are
marked as %doc
I have some questions about disk saving. What about the files
under /usr/lib/locale? Are they necessary? In my system it takes up around
100M of disk space. And /usr/share/doc? Apart from HTML, can the other
directories be safely deleted?
These are various things required by glibc to support a locale. I'm
pretty sure they're tagged with the right lang tag, though, so again, if
the route of setting %__install_langs is taken, then the space usage
should be reduced to what is actually required
Jeremy