[wplug] unused locales

[Keith Wolters]

I decided to move the files elsewhere and replace /usr/share/locale with a symbolic link.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James O'Kane" <jo2y at midnightlinux.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:55:25 -0400 (EDT) 
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] unused locales

> 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
> 
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