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Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests?



On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 07:12:44 +0900, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 01:02:29PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> In the future, if users can easily filter out locale data, we could
>> decide that that's the easier path to support such users, and that fewer
>> package maintainers need to maintain separate -l10n packages.
>
>The future is 14 years old. https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/15/save-disk-space-by-excluding-useless-files-with-dpkg/

And I never got it working. Tried to talk to the dpkg maintainer but
got ghosted eventually. That's a clear usability issue.

Greetings
Marc
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