I'm investigating whether it makes sense to switch to a scheme where the glibc locale data is built from source, during package installation, based on the langpack configuration system. This is similar to what Debian does.
The reason is that the compressed locale source code (without the charmaps, which are not strictly needed once we patch localedef) is smaller than the subset of locales of a langpack package which people actually. For example, glibc-langpack-en on Fedora 29 is 6.7 MiB when installed, but en_US.utf8 is 2.9 MiB, and the locale sources are 3.4 MiB, so even the common case realizes a small saving. For the installer, the savings might be much larger. If we can teach anaconda to generate the appropriate locale only after the user has selected the language, then we no longer need the full locale archive in the installation image (and in RAM). Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
