Re: /var/cache/man/...
On 10/04/14 10:07, Doug wrote:
>
> On 04/09/2014 07:14 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote:
>>> The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many
>>> directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I
>>> deleted them.
>> That was a mistake. You're new to this "sysadmin" stuff right? ;)
> snip/
>>
>> The answer of course is that most people use characters and words
>> from a number of languages. Those extra man pages don't take up a
>> lot of space.
>>
>>
> /snip/
>
> The only characters that anyone could reasonably need can be formed
> by setting up a Compose key.
Do you have a source for that or is it just an opinion from the
viewpoint of a particular location?
> That will allow you all the diacritical marks for the Romance
> languages, the umlauts and esstset for German, and some of the
> oddball stuff that you see in the Scandinavian and Polish languages.
> It's unlikely that you're going to need a Cyrillic or East Asian
> alphabet (of which there are several--Korean, Japanese, Chinese,
> Thai, probably more). The Compose will also give you currency signs
> and some common fractions. (Some word processors have tables of
> symbols--things you wouldn't find in any of the locales, like musical
> flat signs, some mathematical operators, etc.)
> Unless you are going
> to actually write in a language other than English, you won't need
> any locale other than that.
Agreed.
But... most people do the "hit Enter" install, and Debian caters for
that sort of "anyone" approach by providing "everything" unless the
installer specifies what locales (as opposed to *character* sets), *and*
choses to purge other locales.
>
> --doug
>
>
Kind regards
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