Re: Splitting locales and i18ndata from glibc into some sane packages
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:41PM +0200, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote:
> 5.10.2000 pisze Petr Cech (cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz):
>
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:13:25PM -0400 , -dsr- wrote:
> > > How about splitting on the two-letter language parts?
>
> > oh boy. +-50 packages just to split it. :( As I saw the KDE ones, I probably
> > could live with them, as they are huge, but i18ndata I'd left in one piece.
>
> Wouldn't it be good to implement subpackages into dpkg? And then
> install only those locale subpackages which the user needs? Something
> like:
That blows the whole point. People would still have to download the whole
damn thing.
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