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.
How to remove unused locales?
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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.
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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?
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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 For Firefox just disable the language packs you don't use from the add-ons.
PS: Old hardware doesn't necessarily mean smaller disks.
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.
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.
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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
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DataDrake Thank you for this information!
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
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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Thanks everybody!