On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:57:23AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:20:56 +0200 > Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Indeed, installling Squeeze (without any task) needs 460MiB > > If you want to trim that down, you should *definitely* use Emdebian > where the packages themselves have this content already trimmed out.
Or, for a less drastic solution, use localepurge. Losing the docs is a significant loss, you don't want to suffer that unless your machine is a really small dinky gadget. This is a part of the damage Nokia inflicted on n900 even though it would be a tiny part of that 32GB disk. I really wonder why you still need to install "locales" to get UTF-8. Even in current glibc, it's a second class citizen. Several years ago, I benchmarked a mockup of hard-coding UTF-8 the way ISO-8859-1 and KOI8-R were done in the past, and it shaved 20% of the whole fork-exec-ld-setlocale-getopt-...-exit sequence almost every program does. The character classification tables are needlessly duplicated for every locale as well -- try an ISO-8859-1 and look at iswfoo() for chars >0xFF, even though there's a separate copy per locale, for all but C and POSIX it's identical. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101029093659.ga10...@angband.pl