Omnibus space saving list

[sj]

#4281 has a good list of cruft to clean up. I want to highlight system pieces that take up a lot of space in a separate ticket.

Here are some things in the current build that could be slimmed down (around 100M in all).

Things we may be able to replace/do without:

• 9M of cracklib-dicts (see #5259)
• Numeric (1.7M); we're replacing it with Numpy (see #1286)
• F2Py in Numpy (2M; python interfaces for Fortran)

Extra python bits & test suites in /usr/lib/python2.5 (7+ M):

• test/ 5.6M
• bsddb/test/ , email/test/ , sqlite3/test/ , ctypes/test/ , site-packages/pysqlite2/test/ , site-packages/setuptools/tests/

Extra data in:

• /usr/share/locale (16M of messages)
• /usr/share/terminfo (3.3M)
• /lib/kbd/keymaps/{amiga,atari,map,ppc,sun}
• /usr/share/hwdata
• /usr/share/zoneinfo (3M of binary timezone descrs)

Good targets for compression:

• /usr/share/boot-anim (55M of anim, excluding the ul warning)

Again, see #4281 for other details and discussion.

[cscott]

I reformatted the ticket description to clean up the wiki markup.

See also #7353 for *more* things to clean up.

In email I've also suggested the following packages from OLPC_DEVEL_PACKAGES (thanks to Bert for the pointer):

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-June/015869.html

• dbench (26M!)
• pciutils (1.3M)
• xterm (378k)
• xorg-x11-apps (259k)
• xorg-x11-twm (100k, maybe not worth it)

[cscott]

I've dealt with most of these in #4281 already.

/usr/share/locale has now grown to 24M in the most recent builds, but we probably actually *do* want translated system messages in whatever languages we've got 'em in.