On Wednesday 12 January 2022 12:48:38 am David Wright wrote: > And now you want to aimlessly zap a few more directories for no better > reason than the fact that they look unused. Well, take a look at > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/10/msg00308.html > where I measured how much disk space I might reclaim by purging all > the non-English localization files on the system: a measly 358MB.
I've seen some of that stuff in there, too... And yes, I remember that post. > Is it worth the hassle and potential future trouble. I was under the > impression that you wanted to get your out-of-date system in order, > ready for the next upgrade step. Why would you want to prejudice the > smooth running of your upgrade path just for a few hundred MB. This is funny, I remember when an 80MB drive was *huge*. :-) I'm aiming to clean things up a bit so that I don't end up downloading stuff I don't need, and never use. Save myself some time. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
