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Akkarin

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Registered: 2016-02-12

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[Solved] Avoiding useless translations of man pages

Hi everyone,

I inspected my /usr/share/man directory and I saw that I have man pages in many languages that I don't need. I have folders with man pages in japanese, russian, spanish, finish, etc that I will never use, even if sometimes it's just one or two pages in that foreign language. Why are these languages installed while my locale isn't set to them ? How to avoid that ?

Thanks

Last edited by Akkarin (2017-05-14 07:56:07)

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Re: [Solved] Avoiding useless translations of man pages

How to avoid that ?

Bleachbit can clean:

# bleachbit --clean system.cache system.localizations system.trash

Add the following to /etc/pacman.conf to keep them from getting written:

NoExtract   = usr/share/man/* !usr/share/man/man*

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Akkarin

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Registered: 2016-02-12

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Re: [Solved] Avoiding useless translations of man pages

Great, thank you