On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:10:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Steve Greenland wrote: > > > I also think the standalone .deb argument is pretty bogus. > > > > I disagree. A standalone .deb should never be less useful to people then > > one that is in some archive. > > FWIW, I think this point cannot be emphasized enough. We already have a > large portion of our user base who doesn't know what dpkg is, and thus > are crippling themselves as debian users. Adding new, core, features > like translated package descriptions, that only work correctly if the > packages are retreived by apt is only going to drive more people in that > direction, and it will hurt both them and Debian in the end, by leading > to incocnsistency, confusion, and a less flexable system. yes I agree. Now we 'have' a hack and this hack only work with apt. I don't like this apt only hack. I seach for a solution, with work with dpkg and after some thoughts, private mail, mails in i18n, etc. I post this proposal. translation is a core new feature and if we use our proposal it work with dpkg. I can make 'dpkg --info' and I will get the translated description, if I install before the description-translation-XX package. see the parallel with some other parts: - some translated man pages are in it own packages, I will get this only if I install this first - the same problem have some other documentation (see doc-linux-* with the HOWTOS...) - some with the -dev files. If I download and install only the 'non-dev-package' I can't use the library in my own devel process. With the proposal you need not to use apt, you need need request the translation with a new method. All are normal deb files. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Man soll alles so einfach wie möglich machen, aber nicht einfacher." -- Albert Einstein
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