[Fedora-trans-ar] Why Fedora installs all the world languages on my poor laptop?!

[sabdelg at redhat.com]

> Today I checked the Arabic locale .mo files by doing locate .mo. I was
> astonished to find my poor laptop doesn't only have Arabic and English
> languages installed but every language one can dream of. This makes a total
> of 332MB on my hard disk. Now I am going to remove them manually which is not
> something to be recommeded since it breaks package validation. Any one here
> knows why is this? Any solution? Should I tell Sherif to file a bug? ;)

can you do the following against some of the .mo files:

rpm -qf /path/to/file.mo

I would like to know which RPM is installing the files, and if they
are all coming from one RPM. Also, if there is deps that is being
statisfied by installing these files befor we can say it should not
be there or it need to be fixed.

> Another point is I am missing the all the Arabic locales files like LC_TIME,
> LC_COLLATE, ... and hence I can't display the date in Arabic. There is is
> also no ar_xx locales for different Arabic countries - only a standard ar!
> May be I am missing something obvious?

You wiwll need ar_xx if you have different translations for different 
countries.
But as I can see it. For example, you have UK Vs. UK because there are a team
who is translating or providing the differnet version of certain words 
from UK.
Hence, once we have different groups from different countries who 
speaks arabic,
and they speak in different dialog and want different translation, you 
can then
see or ask for different ar_xx :) (at least that's how I think it is)

Sherif