Removing unwanted language translations during ebuild

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mokki · Post by **mokki** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:26 am

My /usr/share/locale is over 300M large because it contains translations to languages that I will never use. The actual translations that are relevant to me would take only 4.2M.

I have edited /etc/locales.build to include only the locales/languages that I use. This has the effect that glibc will not allow other language translations to be used, even if they were installed.

Now I would like to request that the ebuild system would be modified so that translations for a language will not be installed for other than the languages listed in /etc/locales.build (plus of course the C locale).
Another option would be to create a post-processing script that deletes from /usr/share/locale all directories not mentioned in the /etc/locales.build.

Does the ebuild system already support this, or should I create a bug request about this one?

eelke · Post by **eelke** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:33 pm

Put userlocales in your use flags. Atleast glibc supports this, I do not know about other packages.

CompNerd · Post by **CompNerd** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:26 pm

I am not sure how helpful this would be, but you can try to set the LINGUAS variable in /etc/make.conf for the languages you really want.

compnerd

mokki · Post by **mokki** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:04 pm

eelke, the userlocales really seems to affect only glibc and files installed under /usr/lib64/locale. And it seems I already had it defined.

CompNerd, the LINGUAS trick worked nicely. Thanks.

So the only guestion is that should portage set it automatically for all ebuilds if userlocales is on and the /etc/locales.build exists. That way the same information need not be written to two different places.

CompNerd · Post by **CompNerd** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:57 pm

The information stored with userlocales is for libc, not for the general system. It is the list of encodings that libc supports.

HTH.

compnerd