Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Re: [devel] Packaging very large i18n material [John Gay <jgay@celestica.com>, Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:52:17AM +0100, <[🔎] OF40FD4238.E2E84481-ON80256D40.001443EE@ca-chq.celestica.com>] > > >2) Build 37 different koffice-i18n-lang binary packages (like kde-i18n). > > This is the lessor of the 4 evils, but it might be possible to simplify a > > little? Several languages are related to some degree. Maybe if the > > languages could be grouped. I.E. the different asian languages would > > include the various chinese and japanese localizations, the spanish group > > could include the different variations like brazilian, mexican etc. I'm no > > language expert, but I think this might reduce the number of different > > packages to a more managable number, and still reduce the download times to > > within reasonable limits. > > But them, this will probably confuse users a lot. Imagine that several > packages will do this, and each time I will have to find out which > "language group" I'm in. If you are going to do this, please try to > propose some kind of standard so that other packages use the same > grouping scheme. One easy way around this without some kind of standardized grouping scheme would be to make the group provide packages named blah-i18n-<lang> for each language in it. Of course a user would need to know that these provides are present, so the blah-i18n-<lang> would have to be standardized on if it's not already. > I'd package 37 different packages, because 21MB would be too much. > (I'm not familiar with koffice, but from browsing the archive, it seems > that koffice itself is much smaller.) koffice seems to consist of 10 apps in separate packages, plus a common koffice-libs. These packages have a combined install size of ~ 33 mb. Plus another 44 mb or so of kde stuff, if you don't have kde. And X. I think stressing over size is a bit silly given these numbers. I wonder if the i18n files could be better split amoung the individual apps in koffice (kword, kpresenter, etc). That would be probably 10 packages of about 2 mb each. -- see shy jo
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