Re: Trying to slim down my installation

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 14:26 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> If you really want to reduce the disk footprint of your installation,
> you want to check out %_install_langs to only install the locales you
> really care about. Sadly, this is a very neglected feature of rpm, and
> we don't really support this or expose it in any usable fashion...

Mandriva uses it by default. The big drawback to this is that, if you
install the system and _subsequently_ enable a locale, you don't get the
locale-specific files for that locale for any package that was installed
as part of the initial installation. Which is a bit of a bummer.

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