rawhide report: 20060202 changes

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Feb 3 16:37:43 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:00 +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:32:19 +0100
> Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek at zie.pg.gda.pl> wrote:
> > On first look m17n it is real piece of crap. Why? Because in
> > current form it duplicates many things from libc locale database and few
> > more things (did I write "duplicates" ? .. correction: it is not second
> > copy of locale/encodings description because second sits in XLOCALE
> > [1]).
> 
> That is basically why I separated some of the large datafiles to a
> separate subpackage (m17n-db-datafiles) so they don't need to be
> installed by default.  The main m17n-db package manifest is only 86kB.

Then what does need it?  If nothing needs it, why is it being shipped?

Jeremy




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