Re: Low memory hacks

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome org>]

El lun, 17-03-2008 a las 10:35 +0100, Danilo Šegan escribió:
> Hi Simos,
> 

Hi,

> Yesterday at 15:02, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> 
> >> I'll like to see some real numbers on the memory usage instead of
> >> numbers being thrown around.
> >
> > In Ubuntu 7.10, the PO files for en_GB are
> > $ du
> > -h /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/
> > 2.3M    /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES
> > 17M     /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/
> > $_ 
> >
> > In Ubuntu 8.04 (alpha 6), the PO files for en_GB are
> > $ du
> > -h /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/
> > 84K    /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES
> > 2.2M     /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/
> > $_ 
> >
> > What I am missing here is that I do not know when/how Ubuntu adds this
> > functionality. It would benefit other distros as well. Did Debian
> > introduce with feature? Danilo, any links?
> 
> I am not handling Ubuntu packaging stuff—it'd be worth checking with
> Ubuntu guys instead.  Martin Pitt is probably the right person to ask
> about it, but looking at the language pack sourcepackage should give a
> clue as well.

As far as I know, Martin Pitt added a filtering rule that strips out all
messages that are the same as the msgid in Ubuntu 8.04. This was done to
save some disk space so the main CD image could fit in a single CD and
it's done when building the English language packs.

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Cheers.

> Cheers,
> Danilo
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