Juergen Daubert [2008-07-21 09:46]:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:41:42PM +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
Hi, this has been brought up a couple of times already, but we never thought it was a big enough issue. Here it goes again:
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive is huge. With every glibc release it's growing some more. On this x86_64 system which runs glibc 2.7, locale-archive is 75 MB. That's just enough my personal pain threshold :P
IMO with the next CRUX release, we should switch glibc from building it's huge /usr/lib/locale and instead ask users to build just the locales that they need.
+1
It should be just one more command to run after installing CRUX: $ localedef -i de_DE -f UTF-8 de_DE.utf8
Arch has some support stuff for that [1], might be worth looking at it.
I had a real quick look and I wonder whether it's necessary for us :D Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?