Bug#260371: Some locales can't be generated in 486DX machine

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:11:39 +0200,
Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2004-07-21 10:28:07, schrieb GOTO Masanori:
> 
> >It was already discussed about this locale problem on lowmem machine.
> >
> >One way to fix this kind of problem is: it's good idea to revive the
> >past style locales package which has all locales data in .deb.  That
> >"locales-all" package is useful for lowmem machines, or the machine
> >which is logged in by various language people.  IIRC, I thought this
> >idea when the current style locales package was appeared, but no one
> >did not try to make "locales-all" package yet.
> 
> I guess, it is in SARGE or SID ?
> I have not found this Package in SLINK or POTATO.

There has not been any "locales-all" package.  I called that name as
example.

> But I do not understand, why people like to install a locales-all...
> lowmem machines are old and in most cases the harddisks are very 
> small ( <<540 MByte ) and there is no space to install 100 MByte 
> locales...  If you need only one or two...

All linux machines are not i386 derived.  We support 11 different
architecture, awfully.  For example, m68k machine crest.debian.org is
something slower than the recent i386 based machine, but it has total
50 GB disk space.

There was a bug which said that on some low mem machine (IIRC, mips)
cannot create locales data because it has only 64MB.  Daniel
Jacobowitz suggested locale routine should be fixed.  I disagreed
because if we fall back to the old localedef, generating UTF-8 data
needs more seconds.  Getting both space efficiency and time efficiency
is sometimes difficult, as you know.

So I thought that idea described in the prior mail to you.  

Regards,
-- gotom