On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 06:17:22PM +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
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
I'd say no. Most people need only few locales so calling localedef direct, as you mentioned above, isn't a big issue. But we have to document that the handbook IMO. regards Juergen -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux