Am 14.11.2022 um 07:16 schrieb Anssi Saari:
Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> writes:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100
DdB <debianlist@potentially-spam.de-bruyn.de> wrote:
every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw
them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those.
You might take a look at the localepurge package.
As I'm a little short on space on /, it's interesting but the
description says:
"This tool is a hack which is *not* integrated with the system's
package management system and therefore is not for the faint of heart.
Its interference can provoke strange, but usually harmless, behavior in
programs related to apt/dpkg, such as dpkg-repack, reportbug, etc.
Responsibility for its usage and possible breakage of the system
therefore lies in the system administrator's hands.
"
So while I'm not faint of heart, I think I'll rather resize my /
partition. Even if it means moving partitions around a little.
Thank you for pointing at that. I looked at that package in a VM and
found: although its language discovery is better than mine, it is
failing to find some language files, that i my script would. And
besides: my vm's do not have an actual problem with space. It is more
the backups (and their snapshots) containing multiple versions thereof
that are troubling me. I think, i am going to look at their hack itself
in an intent to learn from it, instead of using it.