Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:56:46 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/misc uk.phone uk.postcodes inter.phone
Message-ID:  <19971217145646.13517@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971217203806.3720B-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>; from Daniel O'Callaghan on Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 08:40:51PM %2B1100
References:  <p1i90tkg55p.fsf@panke.panke.de> <Pine.BSF.3.91.971217203806.3720B-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 1997-12-17 20:40:51 +1100, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Remove the UK phone codes from inter.phone and create
> > > >   uk.phone (in line with na.phone).  This is a more detailed
> > > >   list than the one in inter.phone.
> > > Do we really need this in the core operating system?
> > 
> > BTW, a de.phone list is 104 KB large (uncompressed). I will made a
> > port if I have time.
> 
> Or a package.  I've always grumbled about the need to remove North 
> American phone and zip codes from a truly minimal installation.
> It would be preferable to everyone outside NA that all of the phone and 
> postal code files be made packages or ports.

The na.phone file is only 10KB large. But zipcodes is 816KB large!
I think /usr/share/misc/zipcodes should be removed from the base system.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider    <wosch@freebsd.org>    http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19971217145646.13517>