[Request] Language support packages not installed by default

[R. G. Newbury]

Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
 >Beartooth wrote:
 > > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote:
 > > 	[....]
 >> >> It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual 
support
 >> >> right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use.  An 
installed
 >> >> system only needs the languages that you actually need.
 > >
 > > 	Good point! All the more reason not to include umpteen bazillion
 > > of them as defaults anywhere else.

 >Would you communicate that to the Mozilla gang as well? :-)

 >Having all those ruddy language packs reinstalled every time Firefox or
 >Thunderbird gets updated is OK on my desktops with drives >500GB, but
 >they suck up too much space on my Aspire One.  I delete them just to
 >have them reappear on every bloody update.  Grrrr!

It looks like the actual langpack files are in /usr/lib/firefox-x.y.z. 
You can try deleting them, then 'touch' the filename to create a zero 
byte file, then make the file immutable with 'chattr +i'. That might 
crash the update process, though.
And if it is a major update to firefox, it creates a new firefox-x.y.zz 
folder, so it won't help in that case.

Geoff


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