On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Charles de Miramon scrawled: > Hi, > Discussing the Debian-Desktop project, one remark was that Debian has a bad > support for language other than English. > Ideally, when a user type apt-get install kde, s(he) should get auto-magically > the right i-18n package for his or her language or gracefully fall bak to > English. > > I was wondering (well, it is more a hint for our Nordic power team of Yenar > and Carolina) if it is technically possible to create a dependancy in kde to > a pseudo-package kde-i18n that would find the locale of the user and download > the appropriate package. It's technically impossible, unless you want to run apt-get in postinst, which is wrong and broken[1]. So, no, sadly it can't really be done. :\ -d [1]: Basically, because you can't guarantee that you're on a machine with a link, like my home machine. No connection to the Internet, sadly, so I get debs at work and scp them home, via my laptop. Running postinst would, in this case, fail, and I would thus file a critical-severity bug. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> Developer - http://kopete.kde.org, http://www.kde.org
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