Re: gconf schemas in /etc
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:21:34 +1000, Cameron Hutchison <camh+dl@xdna.net> wrote:
> I like to run a lean root filesystem - I have separate partitions for
> /home, /tmp, /usr and /var. I've noticed that I'm getting quite tight on
> space on my root fs, and looking around for why, I've noticed that
> /etc/gconf is taking up 24MB.
>
> Most of this appears to be schemas, which are not configuration data,
> but just describe the structure of config data.
>
> Why is this in /etc? Shouldn't it belong in /usr/share?
>
> Alternatively is there a way to pare down the schemas? Most of the space
> seems to be taken up with descriptions in multiple languages. Is there a
> way to strip out all but english?
>
Probably not related, anyway you can look for orphaned packages
(usually libraries) with "deborphan" or purging unwanted locales with
"localepurge". I'm using them without problems, but read carefully the
recommendations of the above packages cause they can create breakage
in your system...
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