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



Am 2008-09-22 16:43:51, schrieb Steve Greenland:
> On 20-Sep-08, 19:28 (CDT), Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de> wrote: 
> > 
> > That's not what he said. If installation of language files (they can still be 
> > in the program package) could be only done for the language(s) that the user 
> > wants (many systems only will ever use one specific translation), you could 
> > reduce the installed files by many thousands.
> > Actually nobody needs all of them but only a subset. Disc space of cheap most 
> > of the time, though.

Understood...

> apt-get install localepurge

I was thinking on this too but it has an negative impact, since you have
to install the whole thing first...  where you can run out of  space  in
small systems and then you have to purge it...

While looking into the apt-hooks, I do not know how they are working and
whether it is possibel to purge the unneccesary file after unpacking  of
EACH SINGEL PACKAGE since purging after unpacking of ALL PACKAGES can be
a killer...

And then there is a second thing:

Since some systems do not need /usr/share/doc/* there could  be  a  hook
too which eliminate those GBytes of stuff...  But it should leave "-doc"
packages as they are...

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


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