Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-15 Thread Stefano Canepa
Il giorno sab, 14/04/2007 alle 18.37 +0200, Christian Perrier ha scritto: which means that if I install debian using Italian translations (and thus using dejavu fonts, used by more than 40 languages), I waste 5.2 Mb rather than just 660 Kb, which is crazy. When using g-i, besides trimming

Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Davide Viti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:37:30PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: That would mean we have to keep track of which font is needed by what language. A new field in languagelist? yes, probably we need to keep in mind there can be corner cases like CJK

Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-15 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:37:30PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: which means that if I install debian using Italian translations (and thus using dejavu fonts, used by more than 40 languages), I waste 5.2 Mb rather than just 660 Kb, which is crazy. When using g-i, besides trimming

Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-14 Thread Davide Viti
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:31:15PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: The following are mostly ideas exchanged in the wild about what could be done in cdebconf to reduce the impact of the increasing number of translations on the memory requirements of D-I: while on the subject (but on the g-i

Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-14 Thread Christian Perrier
which means that if I install debian using Italian translations (and thus using dejavu fonts, used by more than 40 languages), I waste 5.2 Mb rather than just 660 Kb, which is crazy. When using g-i, besides trimming templates.dat, we could delete unused ttf files. Should be possible, if we

Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-14 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:37:30PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: That would mean we have to keep track of which font is needed by what language. A new field in languagelist? yes, probably we need to keep in mind there can be corner cases like CJK where a language may need more than just a

Bug#329743: Silly ideas exchanged about the memory impact of translations on D-I

2007-04-13 Thread Christian Perrier
The following are mostly ideas exchanged in the wild about what could be done in cdebconf to reduce the impact of the increasing number of translations on the memory requirements of D-I: 17:07 bubulle fjp: I have been playing silly with cdebconf stuff in D-I to see how we could reduce the