Re: Base shrinkage proposal

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 16:49 +0300 1999-12-20, Michael Sobolev wrote:
>As for original proposal.  We do install locales package onto base system.
>But
>this file contains not only /usr/share/locale/* (14 Megs on my computer)
>directories and files, but /usr/share/i18n/ (7 Megs on my computer), which are
>of no use for installation procedure (these are the source files for localedef
>program and others...)  I believe locale package must splitted!
>
>Should I file a bug?

Please don't, I've already done that split. Next glibc release will have a
much smaller locales package.
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