[Fedora-livecd-list] strip down languages from /usr/share/locale

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 11:26 +0100, Alex Magaz wrote:
> I've been adapting a script from the debian package localepurge to work as 
> post install script. This script purges all languages that doesn't appear in 
> the locale.nopurge file. It also gives the option to purge man pages 
> uncommenting MANDELETE option.

Per my mail last week, I think it's far smarter to look at enabling a
(fairly hidden) way of having anaconda set the %__install_langs macro
for rpm so that only the locales you want get installed.  There's also
already a (similarly hidden) option to avoid installing files that are
marked as %doc

> I have some questions about disk saving. What about the files 
> under /usr/lib/locale? Are they necessary? In my system it takes up around 
> 100M of disk space. And /usr/share/doc? Apart from HTML, can the other 
> directories be safely deleted?

These are various things required by glibc to support a locale.  I'm
pretty sure they're tagged with the right lang tag, though, so again, if
the route of setting %__install_langs is taken, then the space usage
should be reduced to what is actually required

Jeremy