Unwanted RPM dependencies -size of glibc-common locales
Bernardo Innocenti
bernie at codewiz.org
Tue Jun 5 21:02:20 UTC 2007
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> The only large thing about glibc-common is /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
> (~ 80MB) and that would be a terribly bad idea to split it up,
> as many locales in that archive share the bigger data files, so if
> you split it up, it will only occupy many times more disk space.
> Unlike FC6 which duplicated the locales (there were /usr/lib/locale/*_*
> subdirectories and the same content packed in
> /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, so it occupied ~ 160MB), in F7 it occupies
> only half of the FC6 size.
I did not notice this nice change, but it's good to know!
Nevertheless, could we add a glibc-locale for it?
Things like the OLPC would most likely drop it.
> In OLPC or on boxes you know you will never need anything but a few
> selected locales you can set %_install_langs, e.g. from kickstart.
Exactly. I think what we're doing now is more crude,
but equally effective.
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