Hi Paul, The solution you propose using dpkg's --path-exclude, --path-include is great in our settings. Since we're building a live distribution we can add those exception to our build process and get rid of all those locales we don't need (and we'll surely even use this for more files we want to get rid of automatically).
Still, I don't think this makes localepurge obsolete yet. At least until a new tool provides an automatic integration of those rules with the locale configuration. So I'm sure we'll keep using localepurge for quite some time and use that rather from special cases. Thanks you for your reply. El 17/01/11 02:13, [email protected] escribió: > From: Paul Seelig <[email protected]> > To: "T(A)ILS developers" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:12:41 -0800 > Enc: unencrypted > Sig: No signature > > Hello, > > as i found out, this localization file location is not limited to > scribus in its both variations, but also holds true for various other qt > based packages. Among these are for example the packages for hydrogen, > virtualbox*, qt4, skype, pdfedit, qdacco, mscore, djvu, canorus, > calibre, avidemux, googleearth, and maybe lots others i am not aware of > myself. > > Instead of burdening localepurge with tracking such non-standard > localization files, it would be advisable to have the affected packages > fix the location of these translation files. In the long run this would > be a cleaner solution. > > Other than that, dpkg already includes a feature to exclude specific > files from any deb package from installation, rendering localepurge > itself rather pointless these days. There is a nice article about this > dpkg feature which is mentioned in wishlist bug #603587 and can be found at > > www.raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/15/save-disk-space-by-excluding-useless-files-with-dpkg > > In fact, localepurge should be considered obsolete now, and it would be > great if it could be replaced by some configuration frontend for the > above mentioned dpkg exclude/include feature. > > Thanks > Paul > > On 01/16/2011 11:21 AM, T(A)ILS developers wrote: >> Package: localepurge >> Version: 0.6.2+nmu1 >> Severity: normal >> >> The scribus layout program stores its translation files under >> /usr/share/scribus/translations. On my system they add up to 25M. I >> would expect them to be cleaned when using localepurge. The same problem >> exists with the scribus-ng package. >> >> I wonder whether this should be taken care of by localepurge or rather >> corrected in scribus/scribus-ng. >> >> I don't mind sending you a patch for localepurge if you think this is >> the right way to proceed. >> > --
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