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Re: Gnome recommends iceweasel-l10n-all



Hi,

On 16.10.2012 18:29, Artifex Maximus wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On last Wheezy upgrade my system install all iceweasel-l10-* packages
> because gnome recommends -all package. Is it normal? I only need

This is wanted, yes. To get a translated iceweasel.

> English and/or my native language and nothing else. Should be better
> to recommends only/at least one language I think. There is some logic

What language would that be? Just picking one wouldn't work for everyone
and be unfair to e.g. non-English speaking people (say we picked
iceweasel-l10-en).
Unfortunately it is not possible to express a dependency on a package
depending the language that was used during system installation.

> when package selector able to choose at least one package to fulfill
> requirement. For example gcc recommends "libc6-dev | libc-dev" and not
> both.

What might work is the following: All iceweasel-l10n-* packages have a
Provides: iceweasel-l10-langpack

and in gnome we depend on
Depends: iceweasel-l10-all | iceweasel-l10-langpack

This would allow you to uninstall the languages you don't need/want,
while still making sure we have a fully translated iceweasel for everyone.

Michael



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