From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] toolchain: purge locales by default
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 00:19:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1470176380-11851-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (raw)
Our current default is to keep all locales installed in
/usr/share/locale/. However, in practice, those locales take up a
significant amount of space, and most users do not need
locales. Therefore, it makes more sense to default to purging locales,
in order to keep only a few useful ones rather than keeping them all.
It helps in providing a small filesystem size by default, and still
allows advanced users who really need locales to tune their
configuration.
As an example, a very basic system with just util-linux enabled (not
even Busybox) weights 11 MB, including 6.4 MB of locales. With this new
default, the generated system is only 4.2 MB.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
---
toolchain/toolchain-common.in | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-common.in b/toolchain/toolchain-common.in
index ff667c0..dae34ab 100644
--- a/toolchain/toolchain-common.in
+++ b/toolchain/toolchain-common.in
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_SUPPORTS_PIE
config BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE_PURGE
bool "Purge unwanted locales"
+ default y
help
Explicitly specify what locales to install on target. If N
then all locales supported by packages are installed.
--
2.7.4
next reply other threads:[~2016-08-02 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-02 22:19 Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-08-02 22:19 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] toolchain: reduce the list of locales to keep by default Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-03 19:18 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-08-02 22:19 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] system: move locale purging options to the "System configuration" menu Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-03 19:18 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-08-03 19:18 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] toolchain: purge locales by default Peter Korsgaard
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