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From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Subject: how to reduce the size of /usr/share/i18n data?
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there are a number of packages that want to link with or use that 
data, and you can't always disable it, but it's very very big (38MB?), 
especially in the context of an appliance that doesn't really need it 
at all.


If anyone has a procedure to follow to put that onto a diet, maybe 
just as a stub then I'm all ears.


Julian