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

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--- Comment #11 from Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com>  2009-07-02 16:36:11 EDT ---
There are several reasons people give for wanting this to happen.

* All the langpacks show up in the browser's add-on manager.
- I believe that the system should only attempt to load the langpack for the
  system language.  Find the first langpack to match the system language and
  then not worry about the rest.  If the user wants to switch languages, she
  can do so at the system level, rather than changing every app individually.

* Having so many langpacks installed leads to slower behavior as the browser
  needs to register them all.
- I believe this is also a bug upstream. Having multiple addons installed
  should not slow down the browser as dramatically as it does.

* 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.  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.

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