[RULE] Language support [was: Re: About the screenshot tool]

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Wednesday 28 May 2003 05:27 am, Eugene Wong wrote:
> From: Michael Fratoni <mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net>
> <snip>
>
> >I've been playing with various rpm options, and am thinking of
> >implementing an option to the installer letting the user select what
> >languages to support. For example, selecting only English support
> > reduces the installed size of glibc-common's locale files from 65M to
> > 4.5M....
>
> <snip>
>
> 65MB to 4.5MB??? Michael, you're awesome. Thanks for your open source
> contribution. You constantly amaze me.

Red Hat's installer does the same thing, installing locale support for 
only those languages selected at install time.

However, for reasons I can't explain, as soon as you start applying 
updates, rpm installs all locale packages. It's a configurable option, 
but I'd bet most people never even notice. The default value is "all".

If you're tight for disk space, the extra 60M of glibc's locale data can 
be an issue.

You can verify this on your machine like so:
$ rpm --showrc | grep lang
- -14: _install_langs     all

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