Re: locales vs. locales-all

[Vincent Caron <vcaron@bearstech.com>]

On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 14:56 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> While installing locales-all is pretty handy and avoids a lot of
> problems, I realized that is comes with a huge drawback: it makes the
> images a lot larger (230MB uncompressed and over 100MB compressed).  It
> makes them so much larger that building images comparable with legacy
> Azure build process gets problematic on salsa.
> 
> What should we do about that?

  I'd prefer them being removed from the cloud image because 1/ everyone
prefer smaller base images, and 2/ it's easier and more efficient to
automatically add a package at provisionning time rather than removing one.