Le jeudi 27 janvier 2011 15:55:24, seth vidal a écrit : > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:49 +0100, Bruno Cornec wrote: > > Samuel Verschelde said on Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:36:20PM +0100: > > > Le jeudi 27 janvier 2011 15:30:31, Richard Hughes a écrit : > > > > On 27 January 2011 13:53, Samuel Verschelde <sto...@laposte.net> wrote: > > > > > Another way to do it without making the xml file grow too much > > > > > would be to have one xml file containing only package descriptions > > > > > per language. It uses some space on mirrors, but not that much > > > > > (especially because the number of applications is really smaller > > > > > than the number of packages). > > > > > > > > I thought we agreed it would be better to have all the languages in > > > > one file, rather than having 130 files all with a few k of text > > > > inside? Lots of tiny files really hurts read and write performance. > > > > (130*number of repos installed = thousands) > > > > > > Another thing to keep in mind is that users usually use only 2 > > > languages on their computers : their mothertongue and english when > > > there's nothing better available. > > > > I still think that Linux is a multi-user system. So I know univ where > > they do install lots of native language support, because the systems are > > indeed used by lots of different native speakers. > > > > Just hope that whatever choice is made, it won't prevent that usage. > > We've been working on a similar problem with general translations with > yum's repodata and trying to keep it from exploding when you have a repo > with 20000 pkgs and 30 translations. > > The one file per language does handle how the translators give data and > then the advantage you get is that the user process can fetch a single > translated file based on the locale of the user. > > An option is a 'default languages' option to allow the clients to > automatically fetch specific language translations on each sync of the > repodata. > > I agree that a system can have multiple users with different languages. > But in that case whomever is taking care of the system is very likely to > know what languages those are. > > It let's the admin step around the problem and it is a simple fix. > > -sv >
Seems sensible to me. SV too :) _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
