]] Steve Greenland
| There have been proposals in the past to allow filtering of directories
| in dpkg for precisely this reason. I don't know whether it turned out to
| be infeasable, or just that no one has implemented it.
There's an outstanding patch for it in the
http://git.err.no/cgi-bin/g
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There have been proposals in the past to allow filtering of directories
> in dpkg for precisely this reason. I don't know whether it turned out to
> be infeasable, or just that no one has implemented it.
Looks like it g
On 25-Sep-08, 08:34 (CDT), Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am 2008-09-22 16:43:51, schrieb Steve Greenland:
> > apt-get install localepurge
>
> I was thinking on this too but it has an negative impact, since you have
> to install the whole thing first... where you can run out of s
Am 2008-09-22 16:43:51, schrieb Steve Greenland:
> On 20-Sep-08, 19:28 (CDT), Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > That's not what he said. If installation of language files (they can still
> > be
> > in the program package) could be only done for the language(s) that the
> > use
On 20-Sep-08, 19:28 (CDT), Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That's not what he said. If installation of language files (they can still be
> in the program package) could be only done for the language(s) that the user
> wants (many systems only will ever use one specific translatio
Am Tuesday 02 September 2008 16:01:17 schrieb Michelle Konzack:
> Am 2008-08-31 19:08:49, schrieb Mark Hobley:
> > eg: coreutils depends on coreutils-fileutils and
> > coreutils-fileutils depends on coreutils-fileutils-head,
> > coreutils-fileutils-split
>
> This would leed into over 200.000 Binary
Am 2008-08-31 19:08:49, schrieb Mark Hobley:
> eg: coreutils depends on coreutils-fileutils and
> coreutils-fileutils depends on coreutils-fileutils-head,
> coreutils-fileutils-split
This would leed into over 200.000 Binary packages...
> It is policy that internationalized (non-english) componen
On 31-Aug-08, 13:08 (CDT), Mark Hobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Packages should not install cruft on the system. This means that a
> package should not install a foreign language file, unless the system
> has been explicitly configured to support that foreign language.
Others have commented
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:08 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management
> system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed.
Umm, yes they can actually. Emdebian uses this functio
Mark Hobley wrote:
> For any particular package, the full set of binary components, optional
> documentation, and unused foreign language support files will be installed
> by the package management system.
You are not right, general. Packages are often splitted.
> A fix would be to make it possibl
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:08 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote:
> There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management
> system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. This
> limits the flexibility of Debian based systems when it comes to mixed
> installations or inst
Package: general
Severity: wishlist
There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management
system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. This
limits the flexibility of Debian based systems when it comes to mixed
installations or installation on embedded or
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