On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 07:25:50PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On my F19 desktop, I have 530MB under /usr/share/locale; this compresses down to 94MB with xz -- 67MB with xz -9. And we're xz-ing the livecd and RPM payloads, right?
The live images get compressed at the end, so looking at the potential savings you want to think about how compressible it is. Savings from reducing things that compress well are not going to be as good as that from data that is already compressed when installed.
Yes, sorry, that was supposed to be my point. The translations are obviously a big chunk of the uncompressed usage, but _do_ compress well.