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Subject: Re: how to reduce the size of /usr/share/i18n data?
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On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 15:48:09 +0800 Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrot=
e:
> On 1/11/2016 7:11 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> 01.11.2016 17:53, Julian Elischer =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: =20
>>> there are a number of packages that want to link with or use that=20
>>> data, and you can't always disable it, but it's very very big=20
>>> (38MB?), especially in the context of an appliance that doesn't=20
>>> really need it at all.
>>>
>>>
>>> If anyone has a procedure to follow to put that onto a diet, maybe=20
>>> just as a stub then I'm all ears. =20
>
> So I am to take it that no-one has any idea how this stuff works and=20
> how to stub it out?

/usr/share/i18n is only used by iconv(3).  If you don't need that
function just add WITHOUT_ICONV to src.conf.  If you do need it then you
can remove all the subdirectories of character sets you never convert
to/from.  The easiest is probably to modify the SUBDIR variable in
src/share/i18n/csmapper/Makefile and src/share/i18n/esdb/Makefile.