locale-archive ?

[Edward Dekkers]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:32:21AM -0700, Frank Chen wrote:
> 
>>What's /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive for? This file
> 
> 
> To speed up setlocale/newlocale function calls.
> 
> 
>>is huge (>48M). What will happen if I delete this file?
> 
> 
> You just slow down setlocale/newlocale in every program that uses it.
> Since when is 50M huge?
> 
> 	Jakub
> 

No offence Jakub, but 50M IS huge to a lot of people including me.

It's the equivalent of 34 floppy disks.

There's versions of Linux that will boot from a floppy, so requiring 34x 
that to store a file is a bit over the top IMO.

If files like that are unnecessary, they should be able to be deleted.

But back to the original post, which program(s) actually use 
setlocale/newlocale?

I'm thinking of getting rid of that file as well.

Regards,
Ed.
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