Re: Removing unused locales?

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El 29/12/10 08:23, Thomas Bahn dijo:
> Am Mittwoch 29 Dezember 2010, 20:10:19 schrieb Nicolás Reynolds:
> > Hi, it occurred to me today to check how much disk space /usr/share/locale
> > was using on my system. Turned out to be 449.43M, though I only use en and
> > es locales, which are in the code in the first case and ~13M in the
> > second.
> > 
> > Would it make sense to remove the extra ones? I mean, I don't think anyone
> > will switch back and forth that many languages (220 on my system), but it
> > would be just stupid to make extra i18n packages for everything... so,
> > should pacman remove the unneeded languages on package installation?
> 
> Hi Nicolás,
> 
> you find localepurge in the AUR. It removes unneccessary locales from your 
> system everytime you execute it. configuration is done in a config-file, so you  
> easy can call localepurge without any options.
> 
> Sure, purge the locales not automagically done by pacman, but it does its job 
> as you requested. Mybe its suitable for you.

:o thanks!

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