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[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:26 +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:01:29 +0100
> Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl> wrote:
> > Instead [of] generat[ing] 41 binary subpackages m17n-db* each with support
> > for one language better [to] generate one with correctly used %lang()
> > macros in %files list.
> 
> The problem is that most people using m17n only need one or two of
> its langs installed at most, but not necessarily the ones for which they
> want software translations say (and anyway by default all translations
> are installed by default nowadays afaict).  If all the input maps in
> m17n-db get installed by default, then about 40 languages appear in the
> SCIM language selection menu suddenly which is not nice.

So if I have a public access terminal and support people running in any
of the languages we ship, then it's better that there are 40 languages
there?

It sounds like you're just trying to work around a poor UI design here.

Jeremy