[wplug] unused locales

[James O'Kane]

This one time, at band camp, Keith Wolters said:

> I manage a RedHat 6.2 system whose /usr partition could use some
> cleaning up.  One potential candidate for recliming space seems to be
> /usr/share/locale/ where there are directories for a large number of
> locales.  I tried to identify which rpm packages own the files using
> 'rpm -qf /usr/share/locale/fr_FR' (picking one out of a hat) but that
> didn't match anything. 

Some directories end up not being owned by a package, try checking a file 
within the directory.

> What I want to know is -- is there a utiliity to
> add/remove locales or am I safe just blowing them away?  I assume I
> might want to keep the 'en' and 'en_US' directories.

You should probably keep the 'C' locale as well.

No tool that I know of, but I didn't spend too long looking. Parts of that 
directory on my rh8 system are owned by glibc-common, some by man, a few 
by kde, and some by noone.
That directory is also only use 11M on my system. Is that a significant 
savings for you? 

Assuming there isn't a tool, you could try moving the excess locales 
somewhere safe for a test.

When I need more space on /usr I look at /usr/share/doc or /usr/doc 
depending on the vintage of system. On some of my machines that accounts 
for over 200M of space.


-james