On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 06:13:13AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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.
It does save the disk space from the locales/locales-all packages. But dpkg's path-exclude would have the same effect. Mike
