Re: Trimming libreoffice languages?

[Matthew Widup <widupmm%proton.me@localhost>]

Not only did it take me nearly a week to build it; I ran out of space on a volume with 25Gb free in the process.  Watching all those languages being built, I couldn't help thinking, "I'm glad they have all of them, but it sure would be nice if I only had the languages I need on my machine that no one else uses."

On Friday, January 19th, 2024 at 11:37 PM, Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost> wrote:


> I was wondering why libreoffice takes so long to build...
> 
> With '--with-lang="ALL"':
> 
> Information for libreoffice-7.6.4.1:
> 
> Size of this package in bytes: 3623759518
> 
> With '--with-lang="EN-gb"':
> 
> Information for libreoffice-7.6.4.1:
> 
> Size of this package in bytes: 849183632
> 
> (to be fair, one is amd64, the 2nd is aarch64)
> 
> Apart from PLIST pain, anyone in favour of making languages configurable?
> 
> --
> Paul Ripke
> "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds
> discuss people."
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