Subject: Re: lib/18151: Multibyte locale support for statically linked programs
To: Anders Hjalmarsson <hjalmar@hjalmar.to>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/03/2002 12:19:21
[ On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 00:22:22 (+0200), Anders Hjalmarsson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: lib/18151: Multibyte locale support for statically linked programs 
>
> 
> > >>Synopsis:       Multibyte locale support for statically linked programs
> > 
> > 	it has been disabled in the interest of / partition size.
> > 
> > itojun
> 
> While keeping stuff in the root partition small is important,

Keeping the root partition small is only important for a very small
number of people and only on a very specific class of platforms (and
that number would be an even smaller number if the default install were
to recommend a reasonable-sized combined root+/usr partition and with
separate /var /tmp and /home partitions).

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