Trying to slim down my installation

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Jun 11 19:27:17 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:21 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.

Right, this is what I meant by supporting this and making it usable...




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