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Re: How many people need locales?



On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:22:12AM +0300, Ari Makela wrote:
> Ben Collins writes:
> 
>  > With an installed size of over 8megs, I don't think that is such a good
>  > idea.
> 
> During the configuration phase we get a rough time zone
> information. For example, I have
> 
> $ cat /etc/timezone 
> Europe/Helsinki
> 
> >From this information it's possible to genereate the needed locales,
> in this spesific case the "fi_FI" locales. 

So? The package, before anything is generated, still takes up 8.8megs of
disk space. After generating, the installed size grows.

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