Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 02:46:45AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote Have you tried localepurge? A couple of notes/questions... 1) localepurge deletes the contents of subfolders in /usr/share/locale but leaves the empty subfolders present. Is it OK to delete the empty subfolders? 2) I notice

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 19 June 2011 21:46:05 Walter Dnes wrote: 1) localepurge deletes the contents of subfolders in /usr/share/locale but leaves the empty subfolders present. Is it OK to delete the empty subfolders? I assume so, though I haven't bothered. Why not try it and see? 2) I notice that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 18 June 2011 01:50:12 walt wrote: I've tried to prevent the installation of many many unneeded megabytes of translation files in /usr/share/locale/* but I've never succeeded. ATM I have 101MB of *.mo translation files in /usr/share/locale even though I deleted all of them less

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 06/16/2011 06:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents 2)