[arch-general] Removing unused locales?

[Martín Cigorraga]

You can also try Bleachbit from AUR, a complete cleaner for your system.

2010/12/29, Nicolás Reynolds <fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar>:
> El 29/12/10 08:23, Thomas Bahn dijo:
>> Am Mittwoch 29 Dezember 2010, 20:10:19 schrieb Nicolás Reynolds:
>> > Hi, it occurred to me today to check how much disk space
>> > /usr/share/locale
>> > was using on my system. Turned out to be 449.43M, though I only use en
>> > and
>> > es locales, which are in the code in the first case and ~13M in the
>> > second.
>> >
>> > Would it make sense to remove the extra ones? I mean, I don't think
>> > anyone
>> > will switch back and forth that many languages (220 on my system), but
>> > it
>> > would be just stupid to make extra i18n packages for everything... so,
>> > should pacman remove the unneeded languages on package installation?
>>
>> Hi Nicolás,
>>
>> you find localepurge in the AUR. It removes unneccessary locales from your
>>
>> system everytime you execute it. configuration is done in a config-file,
>> so you
>> easy can call localepurge without any options.
>>
>> Sure, purge the locales not automagically done by pacman, but it does its
>> job
>> as you requested. Mybe its suitable for you.
>
> :o thanks!
>
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