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 1RrnQg-0003MO-JR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:21:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65908E089F; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A63FE0837; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134462EA0AF; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:19:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pNI3R8tBNb0d; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:19:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from ca.inter.net (unknown [216.99.62.38]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 601A72EA0E0; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:19:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:19:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:19:01 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Gentoo User Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge Message-ID: <20120130091901.GA3436@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Gentoo User References: <1327757384.3757.12.camel@belkin4> <201201281557.34414.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120129050150.GB3139@ca.inter.net> <201201291409.58116.vapier@gentoo.org> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201201291409.58116.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: d9cae0ed-57c7-4e83-b614-c592fd4433ba X-Archives-Hash: 303f1fbb2545a424f34460712caba275 120129 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2012 00:01:50 Philip Webb wrote: >> Below is the output from 'localepurge' after this week's system update. >> Please don't drop it till 'should' does = 'does'. > the vast majority of that output comes from like 3 or 4 packages. All of it comes from 6 packages which I recently installed/updated : evince gdk-pix-buf rekonq xkeyboard-config gnome-doc-utils sane-backends The total rubbish cleaned out for these 6 was > 9 MB . The last 3 belong to major projects -- X Gnome Sane -- , which suggests that other pkgs they manage may suffer the same defect. > file bugs if you want things to actually get fixed. No, that's not the way it should be handled. Filing bugs -- 6 of them in this case -- is no guarantee of attention even, let alone action to fix the problem. Moreover, if it's fixable by Gentoo, the dev involved should do it as a matter of course without needing a bug. There is a perfectly effective script which cleans up the mess & the only problem with it seems to be temporary lack of a maintainer, who is not essential anyway if there's nothing which needs fixing & should not be difficult to replace with a simple request for a volunteer. Please leave 'localepurge' where it is. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca