On 06/18/2011 03:50 AM, walt wrote:
On 06/16/2011 12:00 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
On my personal
system, I only install the US-English locales because I know I'm never
going to use any of the others.
Me too -- or maybe I should say "moi aussi".
I've tried to prevent the installation of many many unneeded megabytes
of translation files in /usr/share/locale/* but I've never succeeded.
ATM I have 101MB of *.mo translation files in /usr/share/locale even
though I deleted all of them less than a month ago.
I unset the 'nls' useflag in the hope it would solve the problem, but
no joy.
Unfortunately, many ebuilds go ahead and install translation files
anyway. Developers seem to ignore this if a package only installs one
or two additional files. For example, see this patch I submitted once:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275980
It's not the end of the world, but I guess what the devs are missing is
that one file here, one there, it adds up in the end.
