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manx

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From: Staffordshire, England

Registered: 2008-09-27

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Question re: man page languages & locales

Looking thru my /usr/share/man & /usr/share/locale filesystems, i have numerous files and directories containing virtually every language in existance, and i only need English support. Are these really necessary and if not, why does Arch/DE's install them in the first place? I have tried out KDE & XFCE on a virgin install of Arch, so these would be the main culprits.

TIA

Allan

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Re: Question re: man page languages & locales

They may not be necessary to you but they will be necessary to people who don't use English for their locale.

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manx

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From: Staffordshire, England

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Re: Question re: man page languages & locales

Thanks for the reply. So, even if i'm the only user i still have all these language directories and files  installed by default? Why do we go thru the locale setup during install if this is the case? Just curious.

Last edited by manx (2008-09-28 04:15:54)

Allan

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Re: Question re: man page languages & locales

The locale setup just tells the system which on of the files to use.  It has no effect on which files get installed.

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RobertoVanto

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Re: Question re: man page languages & locales

localepurge: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11975

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manx

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From: Staffordshire, England

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Re: Question re: man page languages & locales

localepurge: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11975

Thanks for this.