Hi, 2017-11-12 20:18 GMT+01:00 Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>: [...] > 4) If the real goal is reduce the size of minbase, there is a much > more effective thing we can do first, or at least, in parallel. And > that is to move the l10n files to a separate foo-l10n package. The > last time I did this analysis was with Debian Jessie, but I don't > think the numbers have changed that much. Of the 201 MB i386 minbase > chroot, 33MB, or over 16% can be found in /usr/local/locale. The > breakdown (using Debian Jessie numbers) are: [...] > P.S. In case it isn't obvious, the reason why it's interesting to > shrink the size of minbase is that it makes Debian much lighter-weight > for Docker --- you don't need e2fsck or mke2fs in most docker > containers based on Docker; neither do you need the translations into > Turkish, German, Spanish, Chinese, etc., for e2fsprogs, coreutils, > dpkg, etc., for most Docker containers.
There is another way to trim the locales: Use dpkg's "--path-exclude=". This also allows one to keep some locales. This is what we use at work [1]. The problem is that debootstrap doesn't handle those options, so we need to hack a bit [2]. [1]: https://github.com/nantesmetropole/docker-debian/blob/master/templates/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/01_save-space [2]: https://github.com/nantesmetropole/docker-debian/blob/master/templates/post-debootstrap.sh Regards -- Mathieu Parent
