reopen 375829 thanks On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:53:59PM +0200, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > En/na Denis Barbier ha escrit: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:26:58PM +0200, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > >> Package: locales-all > >> Version: 2.3.6-15 > >> Severity: wishlist > >> > >> All locales could be compressed in a single archive and, using a dialog > >> like in locales package, uncompress the selected ones instead of > >> compiling them. > > > > Locales are not compressed when put into a single archive, the main > > benefit is that, at startup, applications do not have to search > > for a bunch of files, only this archive. I am thus closing your > > report. > > Let me explain better. > Now we have all locales under /usr/lib/locales-all, ~72MB. > We could have a gz-compressed file, ~15M, and use dpkg-reconfigure to > uncompress/delete the selected locale folders. > I think this is a better trade-off in low resource machines.
Ok, that looks like a good idea, reopening this bug. But please note that this is not trivial, one has to think about interferences between locales and locales-all. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]