Another nice trick with localepurge

I sent this originally to gentoo-dev when Tuan Van asked for a tool for removing locale data that you don’t really need.
I wrote this code at the moment when I wrote the mail, but it worked fine…

So, just emerge localepurge, configure /etc/locale.nopurge (the documentation is inline and quite simple), then add this to /etc/portage/bashrc:

if [[ ${EBUILD_PHASE} == "postinst" ]]; then 
    einfo "Running localepurge..." 
    PATH="/bin:/usr/bin" localepurge 
fi

at this point after every merge it will remove the non-required data

I still have to check if this works on Gentoo/FreeBSD but I suppose so, if it does not, I’ll try to fix it

Thanks also to Hydrogen who posted it on Forums
For who wants to get the original mail, look here.

Now I hope this can be useful