Save disk space of pip install Django through opt-in to translations

[Leandro de Souza]

Hey there!
While working on a new PC and suffering with lack of storage size I noticed that after installing Django on my virtual environment approximately 400-500MB of disk space is being used by the django package, I was curious to find out what was being the culprit on it, and it turns out most of the disk usage inside the django package is due to, translations, from several languages. On a specific project that will be only used on my country, I won't need any of those files and they're just taking a lot of precious disk space.
Would it be nice if we could opt-in for the translations since they take a lot of disk space.

Cheers

[Sarah Boyce]

It's an interesting idea. Being able to do something pip install Django[en,es,de] would be cool but I think it's not backwards compatible - I think we would need Django to install all languages by default

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[Claude Paroz]

On my system:

$ du -hs ~/virtualenvs/.../lib/python3.11/site-packages/django
50M	~/virtualenvs/.../lib/python3.11/site-packages/django

[David Sanders]

Yup was about to make the same comment: something's wrong if you're getting 500MB because I only have 30MB in my Django site-packages dir.

[Sarah Boyce]

In that case, updating the status