Re: [Rule-list] Removing unneded locales

[James]

>From Vicarious experience.

   Take a look at what it would take to "strip termcap down to just
what is actually likely to be needed.  By removing the comments
alone. One of the guys I know cut about 3 to 3.5 megs off of the
file.  (This was to fit netBSD into 32 megs. for a Vadum Clio) When
he was done Stripping out everything for Amiga and the IBM 360 etc
he showed me a file that was about 200k in size.  And it worked as
if he hadn't changed a thing.   Myself I don't know enough about
terminals to feel right "stripping it".  But if you are looking to
cut weight.

James


   One file to look at "stripping would be termcap

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:12:59 +0200
Marco Fioretti <address@hidden> wrote and hopefully I read
right:

> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 14:06:37 at 02:06:37PM -0600,
address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to not install unneeded locale and keyboard

> > files? Again, I wouldn't want to do this with the standard
install but it 
> > may be a way to save disk space on a minimum install.
> > 
> 
> Larry,
> 
> I have noticed this also, since RH 6.0, IIRC. There *are* a lot of
> directories and files that are left around.
> 
> My suggestion about this is to let the standard RPM packages put
them
> there, and remove the unneeded stuff at the end of the install
with
> some script (for $lang in `uninstalled languages` rm.....)
> 
> Yes, it *is* suboptimal and ugly.
> 
> The reason for this suggestion is that otherwise we should
repackage
> and above all maintain all the RPMs that create them in the first
> place: in this way instead we let RH maintain only one set of
> packages, but clean up right after they have cluttered the disk...
> 
>       Ciao,
>               Marco Fioretti
>               RULE project leader
> 
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