On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:41:42 +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.
It should be just one more command to run after installing CRUX: $ localedef -i de_DE -f UTF-8 de_DE.utf8
Objections?
Regards, Tilman
I've been doing this with my glibc port for a long, long time now. This includes locale-gen and other things which make mass-generation of locale's easier. -- ~predatorfreak GnuPG Public key: http://pred.dcaf-security.org/dcafsec-pub-gpgkey.asc