[Novalug] How to gut &^*%$& Firefox??

[JRR]

This leads to a hilarious potential joke  about interrupts in software.
Are they handled dutzen  or Sietzen ??   -- familiar or formal ??  this 
could affect
latency tremendously.   (ROFL)

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> Bryan J Smith wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:44 -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>>     
>>> and if i can see the actual characters, it's still meaningless!
>>>       
>> Not true, not true at all.
>>     
>
> meaningless to ME, as well as any other english-only speaker
>
>   
>>> fully 1/3 of a centos distribution is meaningless to a person who never 
>>> expects to speak, read, or hear anything other than english.
>>>       
>> I don't see locale in Red Hat Enterprise Linux eating up 1/3rd of the
>> distro at all.  Even in the single CD of CentoS Server, it's not even
>> 1/3rd (let alone not 1/10th in the full release).
>>     
>
> well, i suppose we had better define our terms then. i was speaking of 
> the actual released dvd. i am well aware that the yum repos contain way 
> more, altho i could pull apart a centos 4 dvd to make my point.
>
> in any case, here is the breakdown: there are 337 packages totalling 
> 1.28G which have something to do with non-english matters, leaving 2171 
> other packages totalling 2.39G, for a total of 2508 packages totalling 
> 3.6G or so. My numbers were obtained by doing a du on the two 
> directories after i had separated the rpms into two different piles.
>
> so the 6 cd distro melts down to 4.
>
> jim
>
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