Re: Upcoming Debian Releasesu
> The /usr/share/locale/../LC_MESSAGES subdirs will become bigger and
> bigger the more packages get localized messages. Personally I don't
> need french, german, japanese and all that but I do like to have the
> dutch (nl) messages. When some kind of set on/off program is created
> this might remove the unwanted languages from the system, in this way
> not consuming diskspace for files which are surely never used.
Okay. This isn't something to hold up a distribution for, though. I'd
just report it as a bug against ... um ... hmmm ...
You could fairly easily create a package that had nothing but an entry
in /etc/cron.daily that removed all files but a locale specified when
the package was installed.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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