45mb un necessary files....

in a quest to find out why itunes needs <60MB installation space, but itself does seem to run reasonably fast....
i noticed that i tunes installs loads of language packs.
if you take the one relevent to you, this results in 45MB un necessary files.
i just tried deleting them except itunes re installs them on startup.
it's not a critical thing.....but is there any way to permanently remove these?
it's just one of those things. I'm loosing 45MB of good disk space. :P

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