From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QXkvm-00033p-NU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:06:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E2621C0E6 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B941C029 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F57DEC6D for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:46:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HguIp13mjRS7 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:46:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2826ADEC6A for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:46:46 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale? Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:46:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106180246.45571.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d8c5bef323e9fc3934b273a075a2ded6 On Saturday 18 June 2011 01:50:12 walt wrote: > I've tried to prevent the installation of many many unneeded megabytes > of translation files in /usr/share/locale/* but I've never succeeded. > ATM I have 101MB of *.mo translation files in /usr/share/locale even > though I deleted all of them less than a month ago. > > I unset the 'nls' useflag in the hope it would solve the problem, but > no joy. Have you tried localepurge? -- Rgds Peter