Re: locales vs. locales-all
On 1/25/19 2:56 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> Currently the legacy Azure and at least some of the OpenStack images
> install locales-all.
>
> 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?
Nothing. Please keep locales-all in. I'd consider it a regression if you
remove it. The added pain isn't worth.
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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