Re: aptitude/apt-get update downloads needless translations
* On 2012 08 Feb 16:36 -0600, Florian Rehnisch wrote:
> o Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>:
>
> > Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main TranslationIndex
> > Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en_US
>
> > This is repeated for all manner of i18n stuff and can be several 10s of
> > megabytes of download that I don't need. How can I get rid of this
> > nonsense?
>
> see apt.conf(5), maybe
> Acquire::Languages { "none" }
> helps.
That looked promising, but no dice. It's still merrily downloading
every translation in sight. I tried "en"; and "none"; per the man page
but it seems to be ignored. :-(
Comparing my apt configurations, I don't see anything different between
them. Wierd.
- Nate >>
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