On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:13:05AM -0300, Pablo De Napoli wrote: > > Let me explain my idea about how to support this. > > My idea is to have an environment variable (say DPKG_LINGUAS) with the > list of the languages that the user wants to install > For example for choosing english , spanish and italian you would use > > export DPKG_LINGUAS="en es it" > > Then when you ask dpkg to install one package , and it finds a .mo file to > to be installed in /usr/share/locale/X/LC_MESSAGES , it would check if the > language X is in the DPKG_LINGUAS variable. If found, the file is > installed and otherwise ignored (if DPKG_LINGUAS is not set, all the > languages would be installed) what if the admin later changes his mind and wants more languages installed? would he have to change the variable and locate and reinstall `incomplete' installed packages? [snip] -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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