On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:39:11PM +0200, Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Nikolaus Rath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapot� : > > > Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2) Build 37 different koffice-i18n-lang binary packages (like kde-i18n). > > > > > > This is bad because we add another 37 binary packages to the archives. > > > This is also not a solution that generalises since if we did this > > > for every package in the archive that provides i18n files our package > > > list would get completely out of hand. > > > > I think this is the way to go. If this is done using a common naming > > scheme, aptitude or dselect could hide all the localisation packages > > and ask for the language to be used when selecting the binary package. > > Hum, it should be kept in mind that on some computer, several i18n are > frequently used. > It's bad to assume that the root preferences are fine for all users. > > So aptitude or dselect should, indeed, directly automatically select > appropriate i18n packages, but hiding others ones is more > questionable.
I don't think automatically hiding languages other than the ones selected on an initial install would be a bad idea, as long as there was a straightforward procedure for modifying them or unhiding other language data. I'd say that in 99% of the cases I've seen, the languages needed for a computer were known at install time. [0] I don't really like the idea of using the name to store this information, though. Couldn't we have a separate control field? Cowardly escaping email for a week before anyone can reply, Daniel [0] and 88% of all statistics are made up on the spot. -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | "He is so predictable, we could emulate | | him with a two-state Turing Machine." | \------- Listener-supported public radio -- NPR -- http://www.npr.org --------/
