Packaging of gettext message catalogs (.mo files)

[Eric Blake]

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According to Brian Dessent on 9/13/2005 5:28 PM:
>>
>>I just thought to look at my /usr/share/locale - it is 26MB, making the the
>>half-meg contribution to that from Subversion suddenly seem not so
>>significant after all.
>>I guess I'm overreacting, since no one has questioned that size already.
> 
> 
> Debian has a great metapackage 'localepurge' that will automatically
> delete message catalogs except those languages that you specify.  Once
> installed it automatically does this for any new package that is added
> or upgraded.  That thing saves hundreds of MB...
> 
> ObCygwin: You could probably approximate this with a postinstall script
> that somehow renames itself back to foo.sh from foo.sh.done so that it
> runs every time.

How should 'cygcheck -c' react to a metapackage removing unused .mo files?
  It doesn't really bother me to have unused language messages installed,
but not everyone thinks disk space is cheap.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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