Bug#375829: locales-all: compress locales

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

reopen 375829
thanks

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:53:59PM +0200, Javier Serrano Polo wrote:
> En/na Denis Barbier ha escrit:
> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:26:58PM +0200, Javier Serrano Polo wrote:
> >> Package: locales-all
> >> Version: 2.3.6-15
> >> Severity: wishlist
> >>
> >> All locales could be compressed in a single archive and, using a dialog 
> >> like in locales package, uncompress the selected ones instead of 
> >> compiling them.
> > 
> > Locales are not compressed when put into a single archive, the main
> > benefit is that, at startup, applications do not have to search
> > for a bunch of files, only this archive.  I am thus closing your
> > report.
> 
> Let me explain better.
> Now we have all locales under /usr/lib/locales-all, ~72MB.
> We could have a gz-compressed file, ~15M, and use dpkg-reconfigure to
> uncompress/delete the selected locale folders.
> I think this is a better trade-off in low resource machines.

Ok, that looks like a good idea, reopening this bug.  But please note
that this is not trivial, one has to think about interferences between
locales and locales-all.

Denis