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Re: locales vs. locales-all



On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 10:44:42AM -0800, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 02:56:53PM +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.
> 
> We install locales on the stretch AMIs for Amazon EC2. I haven't heard
> anybody complain about that. So I'm in favor of continuing to do that,
> rather than installing locales-all.

This is what I'm used to, and the size seems like a compelling reason to
use locales over locales-all.  But I'm not really clear on the
consequences.

Ross

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