On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:38:58PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:17:01AM +0200, Richard Atterer écrivait: > > With language-specific Packages files, there is no size issue. > > Sure there is. We'll have 50 Packages file where we have only one > actually : > > $ find /mirror/debian -name 'Packages*' | xargs cat | wc -c > 18940993 > > And that's a mirror where we I only have i386. So multiply by 10 arch, > then by 50 languages, and you get 10Gb of Packages file. We could reduce > that if we remove uncompressed Packages but still ... > > And a good part of those packages files changes daily ... so the mirror > need to download many data each day. That's not acceptable.
Oh, but you're not comparing this to the requirements for centralized translation packages: If you do, there is no difference, *if* you assume that the translation packages would also have to be released per arch. Furthermore, as mentioned before, translation packages have the disadvantage that new Descriptions, i.e. _the_ones_you_are_most_likely _to_look_at_, will *not* be translated because you haven't yet downloaded the latest translation package. You might argue that it's not necessary to make the translation packages arch-dependent. I think that's debatable, as some arches are way out of sync. gettext would help a bit, at the cost of depriving those arches almost completely of *any* translation. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯
