Am 18.05.2015 um 11:34 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[email protected]>:
> Le 17/05/2015 18:36, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit : >> Note that it's mostly the German dictionaries that increase the size >> that much (they have seen some huge changes). >> >> The alternative would be to proceed with probably pretty outdated German >> support. >> >> A long-term solution would make it possible to download only selected >> languages, > > Or make locale packs that can be downloaded separately. However, when we > discussed this last time, I have not been able to determine where the logic > for that is in Debian packaging, for example. > > Note however that we could at our make/cmake level honor the LINGUAS > environment variable like is done for po files. In this case we would only > install the relevant documentation and dictionaries (e.g. only English and > French for me). The idea looks simple at first. But then one has to decide where to install the downloaded optionally parts of LyX distribution. One option is to install it for every user and don't require admin privileges. The other option is to install (and possibly upgrade) them system wide and force to user to acquire the appropriate privileges. Or provide the option to choose at install time. However, it gets a complicated matter quickly. BTW, on a Mac it's no option to add the dictionaries after download to the LyX bundle. A downloaded program bundle has to be immutable or it is blocked by the security guards and marked as broken package. This would force the installation and lookup of the dictionary files at runtime at an alternate location. Perhaps we should stick to the current scheme (dictionaries bundled with the LyX package) on Mac until a better solution is ready and postpone this for the time after the 2.2 release. Stephan
