Hello, On šeštadienis 09 Spalis 2010 12:02:17 Daniel Baumann wrote: > * look up the packge names by e.g. running some apt-cache search foo > and extract the packages names from that. > > this is bad since it's a useless additional logic needed that can > be avoided in the first place. What is wrong with: # aptitude install '?source-package(kde-l10n)?name(^kde-l10n)' Straightforward and unlikely to break. > the right thing to do, as several other -l10n packages in debian do > since long time, is to have a -l10n-all meta package depending on all of > the translations. that way, we can just install that package and be done > with it. Metapackages are mostly for users. However, personally I don't want users to install all languages easily (as this would be purely due to laziness, there is no person speaking all languages in the world). People like you or administrators who really know what they are doing and that they really want all languages can use the aptitude command above. -- Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
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