[NTLUG:Discuss] Removing NLS stuff from a installed distribution

Terry trryhend at gmail.com
Sat Feb 26 12:31:12 CST 2005


I think he's interested in saveing space not money and he's not told
us the size of the  HD, for all we know, it's only a 3 or 4Gig HD.


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:42:51 -0600, Paul Ingendorf <pauldy at wantek.net> wrote:
> And for people using compact flash cards for various embedded style
> applications?  I think it is a worth wild endeavor to figure out how to get
> rid of all the internationalization that has been done to most all distros
> now.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Steve Baker
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:41 AM
> To: Jack Snodgrass; NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Removing NLS stuff from a installed
> distribution
> 
> Put it in context.  How much space?
> 
> Since you can buy a 200Gb drive for under $200, storage is costing
> you about one cent for every 10Mbytes.  I would be quite suprised
> if there was more than 20 cents worth of storage consumed by that
> stuff.
> 
> If you pay yourself minimum wage, it cost you more to type this
> email than the storage for that stuff cost.  It's just not worth
> the effort to delete them! ...and if even one program seizes up
> because it can't find something it thinks it needs - then you
> would have been FAR better off to let sleeping dogs lie.
> 
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