> Marc, who would also want to skip docs and manpages from being > unpacked I don't see how to do this without shipping them apart ... And shipping them apart seems to me a bad idea, since it will be then a lot of things the packager will have to look after ... to check, etc ... I really don't see how to achieve such a thing without rewriting a big part of apt, which I assume, is not a that great idea. Moreover, templates for debconf and such softs are not _that_ big. and big l10n package are shiped in separate packages (manpage-*, kde-i18n-*, mozilla-*-*, etc ...) Moreover, I run localpurge not from the beginning, and the first time i ran it, it purged less than 50Mo files on a system that took about 4Go (without logs and confs) wich make a ration of less than 2 or 3%. And on my router, that has about 500Mo of datas from debs, there was less than 25Mo purged... wich is less than 5% ... moreover, in the deb package, files are compressed, and text files have often a _very_ good ratio, so I don't think they will weight so much in BW/space/time. The only real question about l10n (at every level : debconf, manpages, whatever) is a synchronization problem, since I assume we don't want a package upload to be delayed until every l10n team has ended his work. So maybe here there is some things to think at. But the space problem is (IMHO) irrelevant. -- Pierre Habouzit http://www.madism.org/
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