On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:31:15PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > The following are mostly ideas exchanged in the wild about what could > be done in cdebconf to reduce the impact of the increasing number of > translations on the memory requirements of D-I: while on the subject (but on the g-i tip), is worth noticing that alot of memory is taken up by unused font files: 1332 ./truetype/ttf-tmuni 132 ./truetype/thai 52 ./truetype/ttf-bpg-georgian 660 ./truetype/ttf-dejavu 136 ./truetype/ttf-farsiweb 664 ./truetype/freefont 268 ./truetype/ttf-khmeros 204 ./truetype/ttf-malayalam-fonts 72 ./truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts 5320 ./truetype which means that if I install debian using Italian translations (and thus using dejavu fonts, used by more than 40 languages), I "waste" 5.2 Mb rather than just 660 Kb, which is crazy. When using g-i, besides trimming templates.dat, we could delete unused ttf files. regards, Davide
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