Any good way to prevent unwanted locale entries?

[Chris Kloiber]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:18, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> Behold, Chris Kloiber <ckloiber at ckloiber.com> hath decreed:
> > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:56, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> > > I'm on a space-constrained work box and notice that hundreds of megs
> > > of locale data get installed for various packages for languages I don't
> > > need to support here. Is there some convenient way to tell rpm to only
> > > install locale files for specific locales that I *am* interested in?
> > 
> > Sounds to me like you have done an "Everything" class install. Don't do
> > that. Select all the individual package groups you want, but don't
> > select "Everything". Sure you won't get several applications that aren't
> > in any group, but you won't get a Gig of stuff you can't read either.
> > 
> 
> Locale files are installed with the individual packages, so this is
> not a viable solution. There are plenty of packages that I want or
> need installed, but I can't think of one for which I need the
> Croation translations, etc. Most packages' locale files are relatively
> small, but they add up.

Just the ones that mention i18n. The gnome ones are in stealth mode,
either not mentioning i18n, or just mentioning things like de, es, jp
etc. They are harder to weed out.

$ rpm -qa | grep i18n
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.1-4
kde-i18n-Hungarian-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Ukrainian-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Chinese-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-German-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Catalan-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Norwegian-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Polish-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Russian-3.2.2-2
koffice-i18n-1.3-6
kde-i18n-Finnish-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Norwegian-Nynorsk-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Slovenian-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Lithuanian-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-French-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Hebrew-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Romanian-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Turkish-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Dutch-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Serbian-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-British-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Japanese-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Czech-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Greek-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Spanish-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Danish-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Portuguese-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Estonian-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Slovak-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Brazil-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Korean-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Swedish-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Italian-3.2.2-2
kde-i18n-Icelandic-3.2.2-2

-- 
Chris Kloiber