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Subject: Re: how to reduce the size of /usr/share/i18n data?
To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, freebsd <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
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From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
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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