Reduce locales so update speeds up!

[JohnML]

apt dist-upgrade takes a long time to compile endless, for me useless, Locales like Brazilian Portuguese ...

Yes i think i can do it my own by dpkg-reconfigure locale, but if its reduced otb that would be useful for anybody?!

Do you have a wishlist?

Thanks for MX Linux

[Eadwine Rose]

As su enter:

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dpkg-reconfigure locales

uncheck all that you don't want and choose a default.



You only have to do this once on the install and that's that. Upgrades and stuff don't go through endless locales then. Mine just went with only the English and Dutch language locales getting upgraded.

[anticapitalista]

apt dist-upgrade takes a long time to compile endless, for me useless, Locales like Brazilian Portuguese ...

Yes i think i can do it my own by dpkg-reconfigure locale, but if its reduced otb that would be useful for anybody?!

Do you have a wishlist?

Thanks for MX Linux

How would you feel if we removed your locale since it is useless for ...?

As you posted and Eadwine added, it takes 2 seconds to reconfigure.

[Jerry3904]

Do you have a wishlist?

This particular one won't go far, but in general users can request "enhancements" in the Bugs software:

http://bugs.mxlinux.org

[skidoo]

Please don't report it as a bug, or a feature request.

If you forum search
query: localepurge
author: skidoo
you will find that we (me, and others) have discussed locales management in great depth.
Sometimes the topic focus has been toward "reducing bloat", at other times it has been toward "optimization" ~~ the retrieval of extraneous translations files during each apt update operation can incur significant delay, as well as the (re)building of locales-related files following each package install/upgrade operation.

Content from the pre-existing discusssions could be distilled into a wiki page.
How to title the page? It is a subject which coult "fit" under multiple descriptions:
"customizations / tweaks to consider after installing"
"customizations / tweaks to consider before performing [ live-remaster | snapshot | backup | install ] "

[JohnML]

Ok, i will not report it as a Bug, because its No bug!

Just as an Idea: Reduce the locales to these few the installer offers in first(?) screen ?!

[Adrian]

What about an one liner to comment all the locales that are not the default ones?
Back up /etc/locale.gen because I am not sure it works for any LANG settings (it worked for me for en_US.UTF-8 but if it doesn't find your LANG in the file it will comment out all the locales) -- first line makes a copy of your locale.gen

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sudo cp -i /etc/locale.gen /etc/locale.bak
sudo sed -i "/^$LANG\|^#/! s/.*/# /" /etc/locale.gen

[Jerry3904]

What about an one liner to comment all the locales that are not the default ones?
Back up /etc/locale.gen because I am not sure it works for any LANG settings (it worked for me for en_US.UTF-8 but if it doesn't find your LANG in the file it will comment out all the locales) -- first line makes a copy of your locale.gen

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sudo cp -i /etc/locale.gen /etc/locale.bak
sudo sed -i "/^$LANG\|^#/! s/.*/# /" /etc/locale.gen

Any thought this could be added to what MX System Locales has? I realize it would require an actual GUI with 2 lines and buttons or something like that. Would be very handy.

[Adrian]

It works for people who use one locale, it won't work for people who use multiple locales, those will still need to select/deselect locales manually (unless somebody comes up with a smarter script)

[fehlix]

What about an one liner to comment all the locales that are not the default ones?
Back up /etc/locale.gen because I am not sure it works for any LANG settings (it worked for me for en_US.UTF-8 but if it doesn't find your LANG in the file it will comment out all the locales) -- first line makes a copy of your locale.gen

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sudo cp -i /etc/locale.gen /etc/locale.bak
sudo sed -i "/^$LANG\|^#/! s/.*/# /" /etc/locale.gen

Any thought this could be added to what MX System Locales has? I realize it would require an actual GUI with 2 lines and buttons or something like that. Would be very handy.

Yes. Not the one liner above, but something similar. ...will prototyping after boot-rescue has finished (soon - i hope;)