On Monday 09 June 2003 05:52, John Gay wrote: > >2) Build 37 different koffice-i18n-lang binary packages (like > > kde-i18n). > > > >This is bad because we add another 37 binary packages to the archives. > >This is also not a solution that generalises since if we did this > >for every package in the archive that provides i18n files our package > >list would get completely out of hand. > > This is the lessor of the 4 evils, but it might be possible to simplify > a little? Several languages are related to some degree. Maybe if the > languages could be grouped. I.E. the different asian languages would > include the various chinese and japanese localizations, the spanish > group could include the different variations like brazilian, mexican > etc. I'm no language expert, but I think this might reduce the number > of different packages to a more managable number, and still reduce the > download times to within reasonable limits. Maybe grouped for geographical regions. How big would a "-europe" package be? Or by encoding -8859-15 for those latin1 languages, etc Cheers, Kevin -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at> Developer at the Kmud Project http://www.kmud.de/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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