Re: `--with-small-ja-dic`

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:37:36 +0100
> 
> I wonder if the option couldn't be replaced by another one like
> --without-ja-dic? That would reduce both the installation footprint
> and the compile time.
> 
> Rationale is that Japanese users may prefer the large file, but users
> who don't speak Japanese don't need the file at all.

How is this different from any other dictionary we produce as part of
the build?  E.g., ZIRANMA is also large.

Users who are bothered by files in the distribution they don't need
can simply delete them.  Or the downstream distros could provide more
fine-grained installation options.  We here traditionally include in
the installation everything that some feature might need, and I don't
see any reason to change that policy, except (perhaps) when we find a
way to keep some of the stuff on ELPA.