Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 02:46:45AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote Have you tried localepurge? A couple of notes/questions... 1) localepurge deletes the contents of subfolders in /usr/share/locale but leaves the empty subfolders present. Is it OK to delete the empty subfolders? 2) I notice

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 19 June 2011 21:46:05 Walter Dnes wrote: 1) localepurge deletes the contents of subfolders in /usr/share/locale but leaves the empty subfolders present. Is it OK to delete the empty subfolders? I assume so, though I haven't bothered. Why not try it and see? 2) I notice that

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-18 Thread walt
On 06/17/2011 06:46 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 18 June 2011 01:50:12 walt wrote: I've tried to prevent the installation of many many unneeded megabytes of translation files in /usr/share/locale/* but I've never succeeded. Have you tried localepurge? I just did, and thanks for

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-17 Thread walt
On 06/16/2011 12:00 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On my personal system, I only install the US-English locales because I know I'm never going to use any of the others. Me too -- or maybe I should say moi aussi. I've tried to prevent the installation of many many unneeded megabytes of translation

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/18/2011 03:50 AM, walt wrote: On 06/16/2011 12:00 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On my personal system, I only install the US-English locales because I know I'm never going to use any of the others. Me too -- or maybe I should say moi aussi. I've tried to prevent the installation of many many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 18 June 2011 01:50:12 walt wrote: I've tried to prevent the installation of many many unneeded megabytes of translation files in /usr/share/locale/* but I've never succeeded. ATM I have 101MB of *.mo translation files in /usr/share/locale even though I deleted all of them less

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/16/2011 06:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents 2) /etc/env.d/02locale as has been discussed on the list recently There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 06/16/2011 06:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents 2)

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/16/2011 07:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the two locales I have seen

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/16/2011 07:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I think the root of my question is really the (possibly) unfortunately use of the word 'locale' for the glibc stuff. locale.gen looks a bit cryptic, but the gen refers to generating locales. To have locales available for use, they need to be