Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 19:06:32 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, freebsd <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to reduce the size of /usr/share/i18n data? Message-ID: <fd981e61-06c9-0236-bc7e-22a1b5bce704@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <58187573.7020402@grosbein.net> References: <7b036323-aa77-6d41-36b0-439a12a36524@freebsd.org> <58187573.7020402@grosbein.net>
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On 1/11/2016 6:58 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 01.11.2016 17:53, Julian Elischer пишет: >> 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. > > +1 > > Introduction of such large part of base system is kind of > catastrophe for embedded systems > that need only ASCII and may be additionally one of "good old" 8-bit > locales. > > FreeBSD 11 got pretty large and embedded-unfriendly without clear > way to exclude such unneeded parts. > > it's already bloating out 10.3
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