Re: Fwd: Re: how to reduce the size of /usr/share/i18n data?

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 15:11:37 +0800
On 3/11/2016 7:46 PM, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 06:46:39 -0400
> Mark Heily <mark_at_heily.com> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 3, 2016 5:30 AM, "Kurt Jaeger" <lists_at_opsec.eu> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>>> So I am to take it that no-one has any idea how this stuff works and
>>>> how to stub it out?
>>> Or had time to write about it.
>>>
>>> --
>>> pi_at_opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                         4 years to
>> go !
>> Maybe you could use 'svn blame' to research who has commited those files,
>> and contact them directly?
> Not shure but maybe WITHOUT_ICONV knob would eliminate them from build.
> Beware! It should completely eliminate iconv features.
>
> See commit message for Revision 219019 below.
>
>    https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/i18n/Makefile?view=log
>
> Sorry, I don't know how to safely delete some (not all) part of
> conversions to shrink the contents there, keeping limited iconv
> features to work.
>
there are some 3rd party apps that want them so I'd rather just know 
how to make a really small subset.

there is a database that is describes the data there but I have no 
clue how to generate a new db.
Received on Sat Nov 05 2016 - 06:11:59 UTC

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