Apt-get continually generates locales.

[aay]

--Localepurge is pretty good, but I have no visibly bad results from just removing the locales package entirely.

' apt-get remove --purge locales '

That is pretty interesting. I labored under the same assumption as Stephen. Since this seems to be a major pain for pain for a HD install (more so for newbies) would it be possible to drop it from the CD? Or would that screw up some people's language settings? In any event thanks for the tip as I think this is the easiest way to deal with the problem.