Today when I did the most recent update to the 6.1.0-30-amd64 kernel I noticed that installing all possible localisation and language files for LibreOffice and Firefox took more time than everything else together. I wonder if you know of an easy way to tell all programs to not install such files if I already know that I will never need them.
Localepurge is mentioned in this forum again and again. I understand that this program runs after apt and it deletes unwanted language files after they have been installed. But to first install something only to uninstall it right afterwards seems lees than optimal to me. I don't have any space problems and I suspect those additional files won't affect the performance of programs either, but I have the impression having a global option in Debian to select only the languages I actually want would be neat. Maybe I just don't know about it.
I can imagine that accomplishing something like this could be difficult since different applications probably deal in various ways with localisation and translation. Is this actually the reason why this isn't an option? Is it just to hard to define a global language setting in Debian that would not just define the desktop language but also be used for limiting what languages other programs handled through the package manager would actually install? Maybe it is to late for such an approach since it would probably need separate language packs for all programs that could be pulled in in case of any later need.
Localepurge is mentioned in this forum again and again. I understand that this program runs after apt and it deletes unwanted language files after they have been installed. But to first install something only to uninstall it right afterwards seems lees than optimal to me. I don't have any space problems and I suspect those additional files won't affect the performance of programs either, but I have the impression having a global option in Debian to select only the languages I actually want would be neat. Maybe I just don't know about it.
I can imagine that accomplishing something like this could be difficult since different applications probably deal in various ways with localisation and translation. Is this actually the reason why this isn't an option? Is it just to hard to define a global language setting in Debian that would not just define the desktop language but also be used for limiting what languages other programs handled through the package manager would actually install? Maybe it is to late for such an approach since it would probably need separate language packs for all programs that could be pulled in in case of any later need.
Statistics: Posted by Onsemeliot — 2025-01-22 18:32 — Replies 2 — Views 45