Re: Is it safe to remove /usr/share/locale after 'locales' package is removed
On 2012-09-17 19:22 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:47:23 +0200, Zsolt Ero wrote:
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>> My question is that is it safe to remove the all the leftover file from
>> /usr/share/locale after removing the locales package?
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>> Or are those files required for anything else?
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> (...)
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> Google points to a tool called "localepurge", available from the usual
> repositories. Before manually removing folders that where not purged
> after the locale packages have been removed, I would look at this, just
> to get a second opinion.
Besides localepurge, there is also dpkg's path-exclude option (in
Squeeze and later), see [1].
Cheers,
Sven
1. http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/15/save-disk-space-by-excluding-useless-files-with-dpkg/
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