#5535 HIGH FutureF: Omnibus space saving list

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#5535: Omnibus space saving list
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   Reporter:  sj          |       Owner:  jg            
       Type:  defect      |      Status:  new           
   Priority:  high        |   Milestone:  FutureFeatures
  Component:  distro      |     Version:                
 Resolution:              |    Keywords:                
Next_action:  code        |    Verified:  0             
  Blockedby:  4281, 7353  |    Blocking:                
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Old description:

> #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) even though 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.

New description:

 #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.

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Comment(by 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.

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