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
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Adrian
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