[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 477127] RFE: subpackage or separate language packs from main package

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--- Comment #14 from Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com>  2009-08-31 03:23:22 EDT ---
(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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