[Minimizing Fedora] Langpacks for Firefox.

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Apr 27 03:04:49 UTC 2007


Christopher Aillon (caillon at redhat.com) said: 
> On my system right now, /usr/share/locale takes up 373MB, dwarfing 
> whatever Firefox uses.  Splitting out Firefox's langpacks won't solve 
> your problem.

Moreover, splitting off of langpacks:

- requires explicit support by adding packages in comps to work at
  all at initial install time
- doesn't work at all if you're installing the package later

It's a bad bad hack.

Bill




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