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Re: Splitting locales and i18ndata from glibc into some sane packages



On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:01:51AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> > bmc@espy:/usr/src/upload$ ls /usr/lib/locale/ | wc -l
> >     134
> 
> Well, the other proposal was:
> 
> $ ls /usr/lib/locale | sed -e s/_.*// | uniq | wc -l
>      53

That was not my original proposal. I suggested continents, which == 7 last
time I took geography.

> But regardless, I'm not sure what the problem with 134 locale packages
> is.  Could someone elaborate, please?  Is it:
> 
> 1.  Too difficult to maintain?
> 2.  Too confusing for the user browsing the package-selection tool?
> 3.  Something else?

1 & 2, and also, Adds too much to the Packages file size, too much
in the overrides (ftp-maint have to keep this up). I'm not putting that
much work on them or myself.

Ben

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