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Re: Bug#678227: Bug#641967: Apt downloads all description translations



On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:47:09 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:47:43AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > David Kalnischkies, le Tue 28 Aug 2012 10:31:23 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > The issue also happens at debian-installer time, thus downloading way
> > > 
> > > (I don't know why an "also" is in that sentence …)
> > 
> > That's actually because 678227 is what made debian-boot consider the
> > issue quoted above "already reported" (see #684954).
> > 
> > > apt-cdrom copies every Translation-* file from the disk to /var/lib/apt/lists
> > 
> > Why?  Why not just for the current locale?
> 
> How about copying files for all configured locales on the system? Unless
> someone installes locales-all, this would be the best solution in my
> opinion (and the user can still overwrite it with APT configuration
> options anyway).
> 
Just because I have locales-all installed doesn't mean I want every
single translation downloaded.  Getting just the english ones is painful
enough thankyouverymuch.

Cheers,
Julien

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