Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:30:06 +0200, Dan Jacobson wrote: > regarding "remove the rest", the pros must have a better way than the > below, no? > > # dlocate -l apt-howto|tr -s \ |cut -d \ -f2| > awk '/apt/&&!/-en/'|xargs apt-get -y --purge remove In the fine tradition of 'go away or I shall replac

Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

2003-07-08 Thread TR
File: *manpages*, Node: localepurge, Up: (dir) LOCALEPURGE(8) LOCALEPURGE(8) NAME localepurge - removing superfluous locale data SYNOPSIS localepurge DESCRIPTION localepurge is a small script to recover disk space wasted for unne

Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

2003-07-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
> apt-howto is a metapackage; you install it to get the apt-howto > in all its various translations. Once you've decided on the > translations you need, and remove the rest, the apt-howto > package will be removed as well because its dependencies are > no longer satisfied. regarding "remove the r

Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

2003-07-06 Thread Chris Metzler
On 06 Jul 2003 13:00:18 +0800 Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmm, as my home isn't as international as the average Debian user, if > I were to cut down on modem time, > > # apt-get -s remove --purge apt-howto-ru > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Th

Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

2003-07-05 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 01:00, Dan Jacobson wrote: > As a faithful Debian user, I must keep abreast of all latest advances. > # apt-get --print-uris -y dist-upgrade|awk 'NF==4{print $3,$2}'|grep apt-|sort -rn > 300030 apt-howto-ru_1.8.5-2_all.deb > 258682 apt-howto-pl_1.8.5-2_all.deb > 257092 apt-how