Thanks for the history Danek.
It would probably be more useful if the installer provided the option to
select which localizations you want installed rather than installing them all,
or alternatively only installed the localization you choose at install time.
The way it is, it asks which locale you want, then installs the lot and makes
your choice the default. The vast majority of users would only want one (or
possibly two) locales ever, so it seems both wasteful and time consuming to
install all of them and then have all of them updated on an ongoing basis. If
nothing else, it would reduce the bandwidth load on repositories quite a bit.
Is this unreasonable, or am I missing something that requires all the locales
to be installed initially?
Cheers
Frank
Danek Duvall wrote:
Frank Allan wrote:
Why does ipkg-gui depend on ipkg-gui-l10n ?
This is totally inconsistent with all the other *l10n* packages which
depend on the base pkg.
It was done this way early on, before moving all the l10n components into
the base SUNWipkg-gui.
At this point, SUNWipkg-gui-l10n is empty, and should be marked obsolete,
while SUNWipkg-gui should have an optional or incorporate dependency on it,
so that the removal is forced (or the pkg5 consolidation package should
incorporate the obsolete version).
As a related question, is there a recommended way to remove all the
extra language components from a system?
Right now, there's no good way, if for no other reason than many components
don't separate these out into separate packages.
Eventually, localizations will all be moved into the packages the base
component is in, and facets will be used to allow you to install whichever
ones you want, system-wide. So you can turn them all off, or make sure
that all packages which have German localizations have them installed, etc.
Danek
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