On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:50:52PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: tasksel, general > Version: 1.25 > Severity: normal > > If you pick the Spanish language task in tasksel, you will get mozilla > and openoffice installed, which is often not the desired effect. This is That not only happens with the spanish task, the same happens with the danish task. BTW. (..) > > Solutions include: > > - Make the -ll packages only recommend the main packages, as the kde > ones do. Unfortunately, this cannot be done easily for mozilla, at least, since translations for a version will not work (and will probably break) other versions. Also, it depends on mozilla being available to register the locale. > - Put the -ll packages in the tasks that install OOo and mozilla. > But this is quite hard to maintain in tasksel. Maybe tasksel could have two different set of tasks: language tasks and "purpose" tasks (for a lack of a better word) and have tasksel decide the appropiate packages based on crossing both types. That way you could have language-tasks packages with no specific purpose or for all purposes (like 'util-linux-locales') but some other packages would be installed only if you selected a combination of tasks. For example: if you selected task 'Spanish' and 'Desktop' you get both kde's and gnome locales and documentation. If you select 'danish' and 'office' then you get 'openoffice.org-l10n-da' > - Stop this translation splitting nonsense. The problem (at least in the mozilla case) is that translations are not provided within upstream sources, they are provided by different teams, for different mozilla versions and are never integrated into the core itself. It's crap, I know, but that should be fixed upstream. In any case, I've removed the mentioned packages from the CVS until we decide what is best and how to do it. Regards Javi
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