Minimal installation

[Justin Zygmont]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote:

> Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> > 
> > Remember that someone commented that "they had heard" this could be the 
> > cause. We do not know that for sure.
> 
> cd /usr/share/locale
> du -s .
> 
> On a workstation install, that directory is 189MB.  glibc-common is 
> 43MB, mostly translations.
> 
> 
> > "Stripping out" all other languages is, I hope to God, simply not an 
> > option.
> 
> It's a legitimate option if you do it post-install.  Debian, I believe, 
> has a script that strips out unused languages.

there's what we need, Ideas.  I was hoping someone had a suggestion when I 
first mentioned it.