Re: Splitting locales and i18ndata from glibc into some sane packages
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:05:29PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
> > > > > I want to split up the locales and i18ndata packages from glibc in to some
> > > > > more sanely sized packages. I'm not sure of two things:
> > >
> > > It's much more likely that en_UK (or is it en_GB?) will want to install
> > > en_US than es_ES, even though they're geographically closer.
> >
> > I would say the oposite is probable. I f.ex. need de_CH (= I'm living in
> > Switzerland) but also cs_CS (= I'm a Czech descendant). Since most
> > countries in Europe have ca. ~20% of *officialy* foreign population I
>
> So maybe we can to put *every* locale in its own package and do a lot of
> "task-locale-something" packages?
>
> It will help people who install or upgrade Debian with slow modem link.
bmc@espy:/usr/src/upload$ ls /usr/lib/locale/ | wc -l
134
I don't think that is very feasible :)
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