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From: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:52:49
Message-Id: 24234.58932.250656.725386@tux.local
1 Greetings,
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3 On Thursday, 2020-04-30 07:31:51 -0500, Dale wrote:
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5 > ...
6 > [ebuild   R    ] app-doc/gimp-help-2.8.2:2::gentoo  0 KiB
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8 Thanks for pointing me to a package I hadn't yet installed, even though
9 I have installed "media-gfx/gimp" (but use it rarely). But installation
10 took surprisingly long because it included tons of messages in unneeded
11 laguages. I have L10N="en-GB" in my "make.conf" file, but this only
12 seems to request additional languages.
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14 Is there a way to exclude megabytes of message texts or manual pages in
15 languages I don't understand anyway from being installed, something like
16 "L10N="-* en-GB"? And is there a way to again remove unnecessary lang-
17 uages after they have been installed?
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19 Under Ubuntu I used to use a package named "localepurge" which did both.
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21 Sincerely,
22 Rainer

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