Re: The util-linux reorganisation
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> The main problem here is that the locales is getting rather too big,
> and most of the data is not necessary on most systems.
>
> I was looking at some script to do an "rm -rf" of unrequired
> directories. That seems to save up a lot of space.
>
> Although, it won't decrease the size of the binary package itself,
> I think it is better to implement such a script, because
>
> a) it won't need chopping up of all the packages which contain
> locale data
> b) people will start saying that locale data is too big, and
> decide to make locale-ja locale-fr etc.
> c) Works as it is.
No need. I have a patch to dpkg(and supplementary script) that adds exclusion
support.
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