> I'd have thought au jour d'ui 227MB qualifies as small, no? It's > averaging at 500kB/package which is bigger than I thought (I'd have > thought more like 50k tops, tbh) but it seems like it'd be a > relatively manageable size for a one-off setup...
For me, it's a big package. However, I agree that size not the main issue. What concerns me most is the non-portability of locale names, for example 'fr_FR', 'fr.UTF-8', 'fr_FR.utf8', 'fr_FR.UTF-8', or 'French_France.65001'. Werner