On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 07:56:43PM +0200, Juho Östman wrote: > Wouldn't that require that the user downloads the whole package with > perhaps dozens of languages? Yes. > Could we develope some > system that allows the package to be split into logical pieces (eg. > languages) and the user could download the relevant files only? Only at the cost of greatly increased complexity. Either you lose the ability to apt over ftp/http/nfs, or you store dozens of files for each package on the server, increasing the archive size and complexity. > I know the > translation databases are often quite small but particularly the package > 'locales' is a way too big to download too often. locales is down to 1.5 MB. See the woody package for details. > Should the package system record the status of installed subpackages? If we go to full-fleged subpackages, probably. It's too much complexity for too little gain for lanuguage subpackages, though. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http://dvdeug.dhis.org As centuries of pulp novels and late-night Christian broadcasting have taught us, anything we don't understand can be used for the purposes of Evil. -- Kenneth Hite, Suppressed Transmissions
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