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- Subject: Re: [proaudio] Question about locales (Ardour-based)
- From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:16:28 -0800
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Thomas Kuther <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mo, 08.12.08 08:17 "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I don't know much about locales. My machine has had a problem with
>> them until yesterday when I *thought* maybe I had solved them. However
>> today when installing Ardour-2.7.1 I see if doing a lot of work
>> storing locale data for locales I don't want or need. Is this normal?
>>
>> <SNIP>
>> mo_builder(["gtk2_ardour/ru_RU.mo"], ["gtk2_ardour/ru_RU.po"])
>> po_builder(["gtk2_ardour/it_IT.po"], ["gtk2_ardour/po/it_IT.po",
>> "gtk2_ardour/gtk2_ardour.pot"])
>> Updating gtk2_ardour/it_IT.po
>> .............................................................................................................Done
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> I was attempting to set my machine up to handle the 3 listed American
>> English locales. Why does Ardour (and possibly other programs) write
>> all this locale stuff to disk if it isn't intended to be used? I.e. -
>> do I still have a locale problem I need to clean up?
>>
>> lightning ~ # locale -a
>> C
>> POSIX
>> en_US
>> en_US.iso88591
>> en_US.utf8
>> lightning ~ #slabtop
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> that's normal behaviour. Most applications install all available
> locales they provide, no matter what your glibc supports.
>
> There is a handy tool in portage to get rid of the unneeded ones, if
> disk space matters: app-admin/localepurge
>
>
Thanks Thomas. I'll check it out.
Cheers,
Mark