On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote: > The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many > directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I > deleted them.
That was a mistake. You're new to this "sysadmin" stuff right? ;) > Today they're back but I can't tell how they got there. That's good, it means your "delete what I don't like or understand" didn't create a huge problem. > Nothing in /etc/cron/* says anything about recreating them. I assume > mandb did it but can't tell what initiated the recreation of all > these directories. Nor can I see any need, I don't imagine very many > people speak all of those 23 languages. What is the purpose of having > all of them installed? Um, didn't *you* install them? Wouldn't that make it a rhetorical question? :) The answer of course is that most people use characters and words from a number of languages. Those extra man pages don't take up a lot of space. You have several options:- ;don't install all languages to start with (be selective during installs - don't install i18n packages if you don't want internationalization) ;don't install man ;install localpurge, select only the locales you are interested in, use it to purge other locales > Is there a config file I can edit to limit which directories are > created? locales does that. Install localepurge to limit the locales supported by installed packages. > Thanks, Mike -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of > all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5345d45f.3070...@gmail.com
