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Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed



Am 2008-08-31 19:08:49, schrieb Mark Hobley:
> eg: coreutils depends on coreutils-fileutils and
> coreutils-fileutils depends on coreutils-fileutils-head, 
> coreutils-fileutils-split

This would leed into over 200.000 Binary packages...

> It is policy that internationalized (non-english) components are 
> packaged separately to the core package. For example, a package foobar, 
> would have its french documentation in a separate foobar-fr package.
> 
> Packages should not install cruft on the system. This means that a 
> package should not install a foreign language file, unless the system 
> has been explicitly configured to support that foreign language.

Hmmm, how many languages do we have?

If each package is only translated into 10  languages,  your  wish  will
lead into over 15.000 additional packages.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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