[Minimizing Fedora] Langpacks for Firefox.

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue May 1 17:03:38 UTC 2007


Ralf Ertzinger (fedora at camperquake.de) 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.
> 
> Stupid question: could the .mo files be compressed without changing the
> way applications access them?

Would require libc changes, and everything that provides a compressed
.mo file would a) need to implicitly require the new libc b) not
have anything statically linked that accesses them.

Bill




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