Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/
On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 22:16:47 (-0600), Mike McClain wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 07:51:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > > I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's
> > > about 1 GB there.
> >
> > unicorn:~$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo
> > 3.5M /usr/share/zoneinfo
> > unicorn:~$ find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f | wc -l
> > 780
> >
> > Either something's wrong on your system -- in which case you should try
> > to figure out what it is -- or something's wrong with your interpretation
> > of what you're seeing.
> >
> > (And yes, I know find | wc -l isn't an accurate way to count files if
> > their names are unrestricted. Here I'm assuming there aren't a huge
> > number of filenames in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ with newlines.)
>
> Since I'm the one that started this discussion, I'd like to say
> "Thank You" to all that offered their insight.
> I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had
> no storage and my first hard drive was 20M so having a directory
> taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is less than 10KB just
> doesn't sit well with me.
Well, it would be interesting to compare the functionality provided by
that computer with what's under your fingertips now.
After pruning all the stuff that "doubles" disk size, and the
unnecessary anti-virus and backup software etc, the entire
DOS6.22 OS comes in at under 3MB. But there's no comparison.
> In over 20 years running Linux I've never found a use for that
> extra 3.5MB data and I wonder how many do. I'm curious Greg, how often
> have you used that data?
Well, you seem to use it, judging by your emails when you send them
under this persona. For example, you appear to have observed DST
during the summer, and relocated some aspect of your life in the fall.
> Locale is another area where there is a lot of data that the
> average user, I suspect, has no use for and localepurge in Debian, at
> least, is hamstrung by the packagers, hooking it to dpkg and
> disableing it for any other use. Running localepurge on the CL is a
> noop but doesn't tell you so, look at the code.
I'm not sure how you calculate an average locale from the variety
of users worldwide. A mode might be possible.
> Sorry I didn't mean to rant.
> Thanks again for the input.
Pleasure. For the quiet life, I'd recommend to let sleeping dogs lie.
Cheers,
David.
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