The Debian archive is a general purpose one. As `localepurge` shows, somebody likes to have less pressure on local root file system however.
I like to have light rootfs and what i've seen in `localepurge` internals, made me angry. Thus, after some warm up, i've done completely another tool. Written in `sh`, very flexible, very aggressive policy; with easy to hack config file, i've wrote after last few weeks of sid updates. Implemented cleaning things: * removing any unrelated locale info, including from within files, like debconf templates, * striping whitespace and comments from all scripts and sources (headers); i think for study and development source packages are available, * removing unneeded files (on experienced user's opinion). Currently i store all usr/share/doc in /tmp after package install/upgrade, read needed changelogs and then remove all. Advanced examples can be found in the bottom of the config file. Python-like as well as C like syntax is available, mainly for fun. Major pigs like "linux-image", "libc6", "locales" and headers in development packages are handled. Next thing is emacs22, but i use 21 now and did on-disk cleanup. While there's emacs??-nox, anyway too much X/graphic crap still is in emacs??-common. Also X itself wasn't handled yet, because i don't use it (so much). I think, this kind of thing for sid and experimental is quite good. I have 174M (/) and 5M (/var) of used space now. Mplayer (without X) and Linux are built without any problems, emacs, lynx, ssh run OK. For more details here's my [0] toy <ftp://flower.upol.cz/geloiwa/> -- -o--=O`C #oo'L O <___=E M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
