Trying to slim down my installation

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Fri Jun 12 08:14:26 UTC 2009


>> If you really want to reduce the disk footprint of your installation,
>> you want to check out %_install_langs to only install the locales you
>> really care about. Sadly, this is a very neglected feature of rpm, and
>> we don't really support this or expose it in any usable fashion...
>
> Mandriva uses it by default. The big drawback to this is that, if you
> install the system and _subsequently_ enable a locale, you don't get the
> locale-specific files for that locale for any package that was installed
> as part of the initial installation. Which is a bit of a bummer.

That sounds like a good spot for the rpm feature we use for installing
fonts and codecs, and with luck printer drivers as well soon.

Peter




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