Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-09 Thread Code Dash
15MB of space taken up by the firefox language packs.  Just how small is your notebook's disk? Well i stated this request not for the sake of space but a tidy and neat system. As a fedora-friend stated before the installer needs them all but the system usually needs one or two. Its best to get

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-09 Thread R. G. Newbury
Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote: [] It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An installed system only needs the

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
R. G. Newbury wrote: It looks like the actual langpack files are in /usr/lib/firefox-x.y.z. You can try deleting them, then 'touch' the filename to create a zero byte file, then make the file immutable with 'chattr +i'. That might crash the update process, though. And if it is a major

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-09 Thread Tim
R. G. Newbury wrote: It looks like the actual langpack files are in /usr/lib/firefox-x.y.z. You can try deleting them, then 'touch' the filename to create a zero byte file, then make the file immutable with 'chattr +i'. That might crash the update process, though. Langpack file symlinks to

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
Tim wrote: R. G. Newbury wrote: It looks like the actual langpack files are in /usr/lib/firefox-x.y.z. You can try deleting them, then 'touch' the filename to create a zero byte file, then make the file immutable with 'chattr +i'. That might crash the update process, though.

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:41:04 +0930 Tim wrote: Can user custom post install scripts be put into something? A psuedo Firefox RPM, perhaps. I'd like some sort of post-rpm install script that get run for a variety of things. I've often wondered if rpm supports such a thing. (My current fix after

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I just go in as root and delete the language directories from /usr/lib/firefox-version/extensions. But they are part of the Firefox RPM, so they always come back after an upgrade. I need to file a request to get the extra languages put in a separate RPM. This was

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:41:04 +0930 Tim wrote: Can user custom post install scripts be put into something? A psuedo Firefox RPM, perhaps. I'd like some sort of post-rpm install script that get run for a variety of things. I've often wondered if rpm supports such a

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-08 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote: [] It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An installed system only needs the languages that you actually need. Good point! All the more

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-08 Thread Rick Stevens
Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote: [] It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An installed system only needs the languages that you actually need. Good point!

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-08 Thread Mike Wright
Rick Stevens wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote: [] It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An installed system only needs the languages that you actually need.

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-08 Thread Rick Stevens
Mike Wright wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote: [] It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An installed system only needs the languages that

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-08 Thread Bob Goodwin
Rick Stevens wrote: Having all those ruddy language packs reinstalled every time Firefox or Thunderbird gets updated is OK on my desktops with drives 500GB, but they suck up too much space on my Aspire One. I delete them just to have them reappear on every bloody update. G!

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:00 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote: [] It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An installed system only

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:00 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote: [] It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-08 Thread Ed Greshko
Rick Stevens wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote: [] It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An installed system only needs the languages that you actually

[Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-07 Thread Code Dash
Under Package collections in Add/Remove, there are tooo many language packages installed by default. Most of us need english and the native laguage, if its not english. Why have in my clean install system Arabic support, Armenian Support etc? Since i choose english in the beginning of install that

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-07 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:14:57 +0300, Code Dash wrote: Under Package collections in Add/Remove, there are tooo many language packages installed by default. Most of us need english and the native laguage, if its not english. Why have in my clean install system Arabic support, Armenian Support

Re: [Request] Language support packages not installed by default

2009-04-07 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:56 +, Beartooth wrote: It ought not to be all that hard to get a list of languages by number of computer users. Given that, surely one could include only the top five (including or excluding English), plus directions in each saying how to get the rest. It's