I'd like to be able to use a "yum --installroot=... install" command line to set up a container image in a subdirectory and exclude both docs and locale for that, in order to minimize its size. Currently, we can turn off docs by passing --setopt=tsflags=nodocs, and I'd like to see a similar switch for limiting the locale set added.
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Reopening and setting to rawhide, as this seems like a useful enhancement (especially for e.g. server and virtualization roles), and as we do a better job of localization, this problem gets worse. [I typically manually purge the relevant locale dirs with rm -rf when low on drive space; would be useful to have a more elegant way of doing this]
Nothing needs to be changed in yum or even dnf. Just put in install root in /etc/rpm/rpmrc line: %_install_langs <lang1>[,<lang2>[..]] the default setting is: $ rpm --showrc | grep _install_langs -13: _install_langs all and this is why all locales are installed by default. Closing.