https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229#c1 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |aj@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | Severity|Normal |Enhancement --- Comment #1 from Andreas Jaeger 2011-10-30 06:30:29 UTC --- Let's discuss this for 12.2, for 12.1 I'm not going to make such a change. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229#c3 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |coolo@suse.com, | |kukuk@suse.com InfoProvider| |kukuk@suse.com --- Comment #3 from Andreas Jaeger 2011-11-14 15:04:04 UTC --- Coolo, Thorsten, we can split up a gconv package and also process the locale packages as part of the build-lang packages so that only lang packages for a certain region will get installed. But currently this works only for a few major languages, so I'm not sure whether we really should do it. What do you suggest? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229#c5 --- Comment #5 from Andreas Jaeger 2011-11-14 15:48:13 UTC --- You're right, there are indeed lots of hardlinks, e.g.: aj@byrd:/usr/lib/locale/zu_ZA> l total 300 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 3 13:09 ./ drwxr-xr-x 468 root root 16384 Oct 29 06:22 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163 Oct 29 06:21 LC_ADDRESS -rw-r--r-- 61 root root 19459 Oct 29 06:13 LC_COLLATE -rw-r--r-- 73 root root 221644 Oct 29 06:13 LC_CTYPE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 435 Oct 29 06:21 LC_IDENTIFICATION -rw-r--r-- 81 root root 28 Oct 29 06:13 LC_MEASUREMENT drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 3 13:09 LC_MESSAGES/ -rw-r--r-- 5 root root 291 Oct 29 06:13 LC_MONETARY -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93 Oct 29 06:21 LC_NAME -rw-r--r-- 22 root root 59 Oct 29 06:13 LC_NUMERIC -rw-r--r-- 68 root root 39 Oct 29 06:13 LC_PAPER -rw-r--r-- 5 root root 63 Oct 29 06:13 LC_TELEPHONE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2599 Oct 29 06:21 LC_TIME So, on my system: du -hs /usr/lib/locale/ 114M /usr/lib/locale/ The question is why the original reporter has 500 MB instead of my 114 MB? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229#c7 --- Comment #7 from Stephan Kulow 2011-11-16 10:32:41 CET --- 114MB for locales does not worry you? for firefox we split translations and translations-common. If I remove all locales we do not support by means of having it in filesystem's /usr/share/locale, I end up with 64MB. The rest would be in some glibc-locale-extra package and I don't care if it's takes another 80MB, because the locales in there we do not support. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727229#c9 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #9 from Andreas Jaeger 2011-11-18 12:53:40 UTC --- The locale data is used to support countries and languages spoken in those - and is also needed to support the gconv interface which allows conversation between character sets. Removing some locales might break some programs in very subtile ways since they expect the standard locales. We created in the past some extra locales via a patch, I checked this patch now and remove most of the entries since those are now duplicates but this only results in a minor saving. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.