Tino Didriksen <m...@tinodidriksen.com>
čálii:

> The monolingual packages install many more modes, because they are used for
> further development. So you can get morph from those. But biltrans is not
> normal to want if you aren't a developer, and thus building from source.

The reasoning is that

- people who want to use Apertium for translation only care about
  installing pairs
- `apertium -l` lists all available modes of installed apertium packages 
- we shouldn't clutter that list for people who want to use Apertium for
  translation 

So kaz-rus shouldn't be installing biltrans, because an end-user would
find it confusing/annoying and have more trouble finding what's useful
to them in that list.


However – there are people who want to use debug modes but would rather
not want to compile a pair and manually
`git pull && make && make test || revert-to-last-working-revision`.

Would it make sense to install debug-modes to a debug-modes folder? Put
stuff like -biltrans etc. in /usr/share/apertium/debug-modes, and then
`apertium -l` only shows translation /modes while `apertium -L` shows
both /modes and /debug-modes? (And `apertium kaz-rus-biltrans` works
without any special switches because why not, while `apertium
nonexistent` runs `apertium -l` and gives a hint to use `-L` to show the
rest.)

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