On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 08:08:06AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 04:44:07PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 04:08:04PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: >... > > > For the rational why o-i-locales-c.utf-8 is usefull, see its manpage: > > > > > > https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/open-infrastructure-locales-c.utf-8/locales-c.utf-8.7.en.html#Use_Case > > >... > > > > The rationale in the manpage is nonsense. > > To me, it's all a long text just trying to say without really saying it > that the sole purpose is to reduce disk space. IOW, this could be > fulfilled by use of dpkg's path-exclude. >...
It does not even reduce disk space. The C.UTF-8 locale is provided by the essential libc-bin package. > Mike cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed