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Include localepurge and post-install scritps to reduce the size

Open Jzarecta opened this issue 11 years ago • 3 comments

Probably a good idea to include scripts and other programs like localepurge to reduce the footprint of the distro. localepurge gets rid of non-used locales which according to my du is what takes the most space of the arch distro. Other scripts could be included or builted in order to keep the distro slim.

Jzarecta avatar Nov 04 '14 20:11 Jzarecta

Probably a good idea to include scripts and other programs like localepurge to reduce the footprint of the distro. localepurge gets rid of non-used locales which according to my du is what takes the most space of the arch distro.

Thanks for the suggestion!

I didn't know about localpurge. It might be interesting to remove unneeded locales indeed, especially on arch that installs more packages by default.

Ideally, we don't want to pull packages off AUR if not absolutely necessary, so I'm wondering how difficult it would be to implement (part of) its functions in crouton...

drinkcat avatar Nov 04 '14 23:11 drinkcat

It's a glorified bash script. So it shouldnt be that hard to just bundle it as post-install script.

Jzarecta avatar Jan 26 '15 09:01 Jzarecta

You can use a pre-seed file to do that, or I can add that in, in a couple of days when I get time this weekend.

AIndoria avatar Feb 11 '15 06:02 AIndoria