Hi Dirk, On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 15:43 +0100, Dirk Müller wrote:
Hi all,
Some time ago I noticed that Fedora is building all their packages with very minimal locales installed quite successfully. In fedora, if there is the occasional packaging testsuite that requires a specific locale being installed, Fedora just uses "BuildRequires: glibc-langpack-$lang".
openSUSE currently doesn't have this granularity. we have glibc-locale-base, which covers C and en_US locale and we have glibc-locale which covers everything else.
The vast majority of packages are building and testing fine in the default C.utf8/en_US.utf8 call. By switching to glibc-locale-base, we're saving about 227 MB of data to pull and install on every build. That's like 2TB of data less written for a full distro build. if you're behind crappy internet like a german citizen would be, then you love the speedup.
Any comments, concerns? Yes I'm aware a few packages will fail to build. I've done a full rebuild of :Ring:0-Bootstrap/1-Minimalx and had about 10 build failures, and submitted already fixes for all of them.
Thank you for working on this. Leaner build env is a welcome change in almost every situation. As you're also busy on eventual fallouts, I am not worried at all to get this settled rather quickly Cheers, Dominique