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maggie

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Registered: 2011-02-12

Posts: 255

My locale is en_US.UTF-8 so why does /var/cache/man contain many other

I looked at systemd-analyze blame and found that man-db.service takes 2 minutes. I looked in /var/cache/man and found:

total 2.7M
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec  8 09:54 cat1/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec  8 09:54 cat3/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 de/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 es/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 fr/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 fr.ISO8859-1/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 fr.UTF-8/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 hu/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 it/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 it.ISO8859-1/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 it.UTF-8/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 ja/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 pl/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 pl.ISO8859-2/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 pl.UTF-8/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 ru.KOI8-R/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 ru.UTF-8/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 13 00:02 sl/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  190 Dec  8 09:54 CACHEDIR.TAG
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.6M Dec 13 00:02 index.db

Why do I have entries for those other locales?

ukhippo

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Registered: 2014-02-21

Posts: 366

Re: My locale is en_US.UTF-8 so why does /var/cache/man contain many other

You have man pages for those specific locales. Some packages provide locale-specific man pages, just look in /usr/share/man

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: My locale is en_US.UTF-8 so why does /var/cache/man contain many other

[eschwartz@arch ~]$ cat /etc/pacman.conf
...
NoExtract   = usr/share/help/* !usr/share/help/en*
NoExtract   = usr/share/locale/* !usr/share/locale/en*
NoExtract   = usr/share/man/* !usr/share/man/man*    # Don't ever install useless non-English manpages
NoExtract   = usr/share/vim/vim74/lang/* usr/share/licenses*
...

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: My locale is en_US.UTF-8 so why does /var/cache/man contain many other

Some distros (e.g. crux) don't use NLS: https://crux.nu/Main/About

graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 10,600

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Re: My locale is en_US.UTF-8 so why does /var/cache/man contain many other

[eschwartz@arch ~]$ cat /etc/pacman.conf
...
NoExtract   = usr/share/help/* !usr/share/help/en*
NoExtract   = usr/share/locale/* !usr/share/locale/en*
NoExtract   = usr/share/man/* !usr/share/man/man*    # Don't ever install useless non-English manpages
NoExtract   = usr/share/vim/vim74/lang/* usr/share/licenses*
...

This is an excellent tip.  Is it on the wiki?

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eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: My locale is en_US.UTF-8 so why does /var/cache/man contain many other

Ah, no I suppose.

I could add it, but I don't see any reference to e.g. localepurge in the Wiki (I use this as a low-maintenance alternative).

Maybe just on the pacman page, unless you have another suggestion?

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eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: My locale is en_US.UTF-8 so why does /var/cache/man contain many other

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=409727

Yes it took me a while not my fault, I don't have a lot of idle time on Erev Shabbos...

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