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Old 08-30-2007, 10:48 AM   #1
bezeek
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Keeping the other languages out.


Forgive me if this makes me a Linux nazi, but I'm tired of seeing hundreds upon thousands of locale and documentation files for software in languages I'll never speak. I'm currently setting up a new Linux box, and just short of installing X, (meaning there's very little installed so far,) I've already wiped over half a gig of such junk.

Is there some sort of setting or utility that will prevent non-English files from being installed on my system?

If it helps I'm building using Gentoo Portage as my base.

- Brian
 
Old 08-30-2007, 10:50 AM   #2
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check your make conf and remove the flags for anything other then en-us or something to that affect. you just have to many flags in the conf and thus it is pulling down every language it has in the repository.
 
Old 08-30-2007, 12:46 PM   #3
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I don't see what you're referring to, so here's my current make.conf:
Code:
HOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/"
I've got my /etc/locale.gen set to en (UTF-8 and ISO8859-1) only, but aside from that I don't know where to look.
[EDIT: I also just tracked down a tip to export LC_ALL and LANG, but will that affect Portage?]

Specifically, the i18n and locale directories are my biggest concerns.

On a similar note, I'd also like to remove and keep removed ALL documentation and help files. Specifically I'm referring to the man and texinfo packages. However, Portage delivers harsh warnings about removing man and texinfo, because they are part of my profile. Has anyone any insight?

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