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--- Comment #14 from Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> 2009-08-31 03:23:22 EDT
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(In reply to comment #11)
* Size.
- This is a real issue. However, it is a problem for virtually every
translated package in Fedora. It is most visible in Firefox because of
the quantity of langpacks, and because of the previous two issues.
Well it is most visible in firefox/thunderbird since other projects
with large langpacks upstream (
openoffice.org, kde-l10n, eclipse-nls, etc)
are already subpackaged. ;-)
I feel
strongly that this should be solved at a distribution level, and not at a
package level. Else, when GNOME gets translated into as many languages as
Firefox currently is, we will be having the same discussion. On my system,
/usr/share/locale takes up 527MB, which easily dwarfs Firefox. That's a
full CD's worth of translations I never use, and need to download updates
for, when they are available. I really would like to see this issue solved
on a more global level instead of trying to sweep it under the rug by
forcing the large packages to act differently from the rest of the distro.
Yes it should be taken care of by the distro - but that needs major
changes to Fedora (rpm/yum) and is not going to happen any time soon...
in the meantime it would still be better to subpackage the langpacks
until we have something better.
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