Re: Some ideas to improve the debian policy
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:10:26AM +0100, Casper Gielen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 03:28:21PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> >
> > Big arguments on this one. The generally accepted solution is for the
> > user to use a version of apt with the (not as of yet written) ability
> > to exclude files, and arbitrarily exclude any unwanted translations.
> >
>
> I think I know an easier solution, which involves less work (I hope :).
> Create an additional directorie tree on the FTP servers for each language.
[...]
> The disadvantages:
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4. Will make the debian archive some 5-10 times larger :-(
I guess that making localized versions (one language per version) of
packages is not an option for us.
regards
Marcin
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