amd64box ~ # qlist -e hotot | grep locale /usr/share/hotot/_locales/bg/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/bg/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/bn/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/ca/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/ca/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/de/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/de/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/el/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/en/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/es/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/es/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/fr/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/fr/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/it/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/it/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/ja/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/ja/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/lv/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/nl/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/nl/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/pl_PL/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/pl_PL/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/pt_BR/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/pt_BR/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/ru/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/ru/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/uk/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/zh_CAN/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/zh_CAN/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/zh_CLS/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/zh_CLS/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/zh_CN/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/zh_CN/timestring.js /usr/share/hotot/_locales/zh_TW/messages.json /usr/share/hotot/_locales/zh_TW/timestring.js /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/tr_TR/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/hotot.mo
The project itself is dead, and Gentoo does not strip small l18n files anymore.