That weird. I've never done anything special with locales and my locale-archive is only 1.3MB. I just selected the locales I wanted during install, they're listed in /etc/locale.gen and they're the only locales in the archive. How did you get your archive to be so large? (Debian BTW)
Posted May 6, 2009 22:13 UTC (Wed) by vmole (guest, #111)
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Are you using localepurge, by chance? It removes undesired locales after each apt run.
Debian switching to EGLIBC
Posted May 7, 2009 0:48 UTC (Thu) by ABCD (subscriber, #53650)
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localepurge only touches /usr/share/locale and /usr/share/man; /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive is not modified at all by localepurge, so I'm not sure what would cause it to be so large.