While not being a developer (yet), here's a suggestion. For these multilingual problems, how about providing a YouChoose.deb. Its executable would provide picklists to the User, and then download the only the Selected Language chuncks and install them. Only the YouChoose.deb would have to be in the Package Lists
With respect to being a space hog, du | sort -rn shows that 46699 /usr/share/doc 42393 /usr/X11R6 30444 /usr/bin 29194 /usr/X11R6/lib 28530 /usr/lib/netscape 24424 /usr/share/locale locale files are pretty high. This troubles small disk installations on older machines. MarvS
