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 1QXkti-0002sp-Tn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:04:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50C791C0D5 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:04:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5171C010 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127701B4028 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:35:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.885 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.885 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.714, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wCSiz4rCl3wU for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2243E1B4023 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QXkRR-0001ol-AY for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:35:17 +0200 Received: from athedsl-371593.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.3.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:35:17 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-371593.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:35:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale? Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:35:28 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-371593.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110524 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2f0757feb246a6a2402fa0886d11f871 On 06/18/2011 03:50 AM, walt wrote: > On 06/16/2011 12:00 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On my personal >> system, I only install the US-English locales because I know I'm never >> going to use any of the others. > > Me too -- or maybe I should say "moi aussi". > > 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. Unfortunately, many ebuilds go ahead and install translation files anyway. Developers seem to ignore this if a package only installs one or two additional files. For example, see this patch I submitted once: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275980 It's not the end of the world, but I guess what the devs are missing is that one file here, one there, it adds up in the end.