Re: [RFC] apt-localepurge - automagically removing unnecessary locale files
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:00:10AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> This is just a simple script to recover diskspace wasted for unneeded
> locale files. It will automagically be invoked upon completion of any
> apt installation run. It uses the dpkg "Post-Invoke" function to
> execute the script "/usr/sbin/apt-localepurge", which automagically
> deletes the LC_MESSAGES subdir of every single locale as defined in
> "/etc/locale.purge". You have to manually uncomment (or add) the
> locale directory names you want to be regularily cleaned after each
> apt installation run in this configuration file.
Listing the locales you want to purge seems like the wrong direction;
you should list the locales you want to save. Perhaps save the locales
in locale.gen & locale.save (since you may have files for non-libc
locales you want to save)?
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