Saving Space by Avoiding Localized Versions

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:55, Charlse Darwin wrote:

> How do I specify the language? (overriding the ENV only for certain
> ports)

To specify the language for a command-line program to use, you set  
the "LANG" environment variable to a valid locale, such as those  
listed in /usr/share/locale or /opt/local/share/locale. Then the  
program will use that locale, if it installed files for that locale.

To answer the question in your subject line - how to save space by  
not installing localized versions - some ports provide a variant to  
disable nls (natural language support) and when you do that, the  
ports won't install any language files and you'll get the default  
language instead, which is almost always English. However, most ports  
won't have a variant to disable nls, because disk space is pretty  
cheap today so it's almost silly not to install the nls files always.