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Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages



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* Joey Hess [Fri, Jul 25 2003, 02:50:52PM]:

> because the spanish task, like many tasks, pulls in -ll packages like
> openoffice.org-l10n-es and mozilla-locale-es-es. These tend to be split
...
> - Make the -ll packages only recommend the main packages, as the kde
>   ones do.
> - Put the -ll packages in the tasks that install OOo and mozilla.
>   But this is quite hard to maintain in tasksel.
> - Stop this translation splitting nonsense.

Neither of this solutions is perfect. This is a case where the imaginary
conditional dependency support in dpkg/apt would help much.

MfG,
Eduard.
-- 
<martoss> hmm, naja, aber kde 2 ist nicht wirklich prickelnd
<weasel> martoss: wenn du was prickelndes willst, trink mineralwasser
<martoss> weasel: :-), ich weiss, aber es muss halt auch ein bischen was fürs
	auge da sein...
<youam> martoss: dann tu nen strohhalm rein! :)

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