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Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?



On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:02:18PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote:
> > > > > more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less
> > > > > than 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also the minimal
> > > > > installation has to be tight.. then rm doc and man and after install
> > > > > the minimum sets of pkgs to provide the services.
> > > >
> > > > Please do not try to force this methodology upon the standard Debian base
> > > > system.  Administrators of embedded systems have many tools to deal with
> > > > these problems already, that do not require ever unpacking the full base
> > > > onto the target.
> > >
> > > sorry but i can hardly read from the previous post that i am trying to
> > > force something to someone. I guess this is just a misunderstanding.
> >
> > Perhaps the word 'force' was a bit harsh, but it's essentially how it works
> > for an end-user.  It seemed to me that you were suggesting that the standard
> > installer should be optimized for embedded systems, which does not sound like
> > a very good idea.  These systems have many specialized needs which cannot be
> > easily accounted for.
> 
> No i was not suggesting either. I was just explaining why i would like to
> avoid to get a bigger base system and giving out one of the reason. it was
> an example, no more no less. anyway no big deal ;)

Ok, so, it wouldn't hurt anyone if all translated man pages were along the
original one, or did I miss something again ?

Thanks, Mt.

-- 
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   -- Le Chat



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