Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 15 Nov 2022 at 16:37:58 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 11/15/22 00:22, DdB wrote: > > Am 15.11.2022 um 05:21 schrieb David Christensen: > > > I installed the localepurge package.  Storage usage did not change. Then > > > I realized that I had chosen the "C" locale during

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-15 Thread David Christensen
On 11/15/22 00:22, DdB wrote: Am 15.11.2022 um 05:21 schrieb David Christensen: I installed the localepurge package.  Storage usage did not change. Then I realized that I had chosen the "C" locale during installation, so perhaps there is nothing to be removed (?).  So, I removed the localepurge

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-15 Thread DdB
Am 15.11.2022 um 05:21 schrieb David Christensen: > I installed the localepurge package.  Storage usage did not change. Then > I realized that I had chosen the "C" locale during installation, so > perhaps there is nothing to be removed (?).  So, I removed the > localepurge package. > > > David

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-14 Thread David Christensen
On 11/13/22 23:15, DdB wrote: Am 14.11.2022 um 07:16 schrieb Anssi Saari: Charles Curley writes: On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100 DdB wrote: every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those. You

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-13 Thread DdB
Am 14.11.2022 um 07:16 schrieb Anssi Saari: > Charles Curley writes: > >> On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100 >> DdB wrote: >> >>> every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw >>> them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those. >> >> You might take

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-13 Thread Anssi Saari
Charles Curley writes: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100 > DdB wrote: > >> every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw >> them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those. > > You might take a look at the localepurge package. As I'm a little

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 04:32:51PM +0100, DdB wrote: > Would anyone be willing to take a look at what i have been doing and > guide me to a resolution of the missing parts? > > My current (bash) script can be found here: > https://paste.debian.net/1260563/ There is an existing package

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100 DdB wrote: > every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw > them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those. You might take a look at the localepurge package. -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-13 Thread DdB
Hello, every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those. What a surprise: doing it in my (rather simplistic) fashion, i got rid of almost 1,5 GB from every buster machine, i had ... only to find, that they