Trying to slim down my installation

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 11 19:49:04 UTC 2009



On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> 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...

Additionally rpm -Va will report missing files iirc

-sv




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