Looking for some advise. I have a Fedora installation and I am trying to reduce it’s footprint. I have noticed that the /usr/share/locale and /usr/share/man folders are full of language packs that I will never use and consume about 800MB. I can use something like BleachBit to remove these however …

Welcome to :fedora: watch fedora is extremely minimal distro and does not contain unnecessary packages now coming to the point if you remove them it may cause some issues like some stuff will be not right there are some fronts will some error when seeing stuff.

HI Martin thanks for the recommendation - This is an HTPC server that I have been running since Fedora 6 days (now on FC35). As such it has a lot happening and configured on it and I am not really keen to deploy an entire new distro. Rather I am just keen to see if I can reduce non necessary install…

Did you try this? https://gist.github.com/sxiii/674ccd0cbefe25b240e9ef4955442c73

Hey ilikelinux - yes that would work but it is doing pretty much exactly what BleachBlit does (find and remove the files). However if I do a dnf update and any packages are updated the package manager will just add the new locale files and man pages for that package. I was hoping that there is a w…

Those packages include those locale files because they are packaged like that. Some packages are splitted into subpackages and you can manage installing language packs like you described, for example glibc. But if it is packaged to contain all language files in a single package, e.g. dnf itself is p…

That’s pretty much what I was asking. Does DNF have such a concept of identifying locale metadata in packages and ignoring unwanted locales. So it seems such a feature does not exist. Fair enough.

Probably something that could be useful feature - I mean if the locale files are coming in at 1Gb then it is a decent saving.

Take a look at the %_install_langs macro. You can put it in a file in /etc. You can see an example if you start a fedora container image; they just install en_US.

[image] Göran Uddeborg: %_install_langs Aaah thanks let me look into that - interesting indeed

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It has ability to identify documentation which is specified by %doc RPM macro and there is --nodocs DNF option to opt out of installing them. I am not aware of such a mechanism for language files.

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