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+localepurge (removing superfluous locale data)
+
+localepurge remove superfluous locale data into your system.
+Is a small script to recover disk space wasted for unneeded
+locale files and localized man pages.
+
+Before use of localepurge, please edit /etc/locale.nopurge
+commenting the line: NEEDSCONFIGFIRST.
+
+And modify lines at the end to your system locales:
+
+ en
+ en_GB
+ es
+ es_ES
+ es_ES@euro
+ es_ES.UTF-8
+
+To your system locales, eg: Brazilian locales...
+
+ pt
+ pt_BR
+ pt_BR.UTF-8
+
+Finally run: localepurge
+
+At the end, you receive message like this:
+
+ * localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 4812K
+ * localepurge: processing man pages in /usr/man ...
+
+ * Total disk space freed by localepurge: 25144K