How to remove unused locales?

Justin

Even if you purge them now they will return the next time the package is updated. 377MB is quite a small amount given current storage technologies where even a small SSD is 128GB.

EbonJaeger

Justin It's not the file size that's the problem, it's the load time that it gives Firefox. Wouldn't be a problem if you didn't have to disable each one, one by one.

**EDIT: And also keep in mind a lot of people use older hardware, where that size might actually be significant.

Justin

EbonJaeger I have no delay loading Firefox but I do have relatively new hardware. If you do disable other languages, what difference is there in load times?

kyrios

EbonJaeger For Firefox just disable the language packs you don't use from the add-ons.

PS: Old hardware doesn't necessarily mean smaller disks.

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Well, actually I've switched to the Brave Browser and it's loading time is blazing fast. Yes, my SSD sadly is only 128GB, because this is a new notebook and I wasn't able to buy a bigger/better one, yet.

Anyway, thank you for your help, I will leave them alone, because they won't cause any trouble in the future I guess. 🙂

EbonJaeger

kyrios For Firefox just disable the language packs you don't use from the add-ons.

I know. One. By. One. That's a LOT of language packs.

DataDrake

Just to chime in because I don't see an actual answer regarding localepurge: we have no such thing since it would mean "breaking" an installed package. eopkg doesn't have a concept of a partial install either.

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DataDrake Thank you for this information! 🙂

kyrios

EbonJaeger yeah I know, but it's a one shot.

This allows to have a localized firefox out of the box (even on multi user systems on which the users use different locales).
FWIW this is how Fedora handles the language packs

raf_lozano

Usually, whenever I install a distro that I want to keep it for more than a week (yep, I'm a distrohopper), I use bleachbit. There are some options in it that can remove many unused languages. The only issue in Solus, but a minor one, is that it doesn't start using adm privileges. Just go to terminal:
sudo eopkg it bleachbit
sudo bleachbit
Be happy 😃

N1X3L

In case anyone else does this, I experimented with using bleachbit as raf_lozano does, to remove locales in Solus and assess the damage. It left plenty broken, but simply running sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall fixed everything right up again.

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raf_lozano
N1X3L

Thanks everybody!

kyrios

N1X3L and it puts the locales back

You have locales
You delete them with bleachbit
You check for broken packages, the ones that installed locales that are gone are flagged as broken
You reinstall these packages
The locales are back

N1X3L

kyrios My point exactly! Thank you for breaking it down list-style though. I see now how I was a bit vague by neglecting to spotlight that the locales were being restored.