ngettext use for recursive plurals

[Miloš Komarčević]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Miloš Komarčević <kmilos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Göran Uddeborg <goeran at uddeborg.se> wrote:
>> It's dangerous to compose sentences like that.  More often than not,
>> it breaks for some languages.  I don't personally know a language it
>> would break in, and it would solve the problem in Swedish too.  But
>> I'm still a bit afraid of it.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the po format isn't made to cope with sentences with
>> more than one singular/plural distinction.  So I don't have any better
>> suggestion than yours.  I just wanted to warn about it.
>
> Agreed, but since this is I hope a rare exception, and no one else
> complained so far, I think I'll just go ahead and request this kludgy
> workaround.

It's been suggested to change the sentence to something like [1]:

"Optional packages: %d/%d"

which would eliminate the use of ngettext altogether.

Should work for all other languages, no?

Miloš

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460728