On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 09:13:42PM +0100, Mathieu Parent wrote:
>
> There is another way to trim the locales: Use dpkg's "--path-exclude=".
>
> This also allows one to keep some locales. This is what we use at work
> [1]. The problem is that debootstrap doesn't handle those options, so
> we need to hack a bit [2].
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/nantesmetropole/docker-debian/blob/master/templates/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/01_save-space
> [2]:
> https://github.com/nantesmetropole/docker-debian/blob/master/templates/post-debootstrap.sh
You can always manually delete binaries afterwards or by using
--path-exclude, but that has always seemed to be a hack to me. By
that argument there's no point making e2fsprogs Essential: no /
Priority: important, since you could just remove the files you don't
want (mke2fs, e2fsck, etc.) afterwards. :-)
- Ted
