Firefox updates language packs

[Chris Rouch]

On 2/5/07, Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 00:05 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> > Every time a Firefox update is issued, I end up with a ton of language packs
> > under my "Extensions".  As I use none of them, and they occupy extra memory
> > and make Firefox take longer to load, I load Firefox as root and delete them
> > all, one at a time.
> >
>
> The best solution here would probably be to split each langpack into a
> subpackage appropriate to the selection of language support at install
> time. (E.g., selecting the "Spanish Support" would install the
> firefox-langpack-es package; and "Danish Support," the
> firefox-langpack-dk package in a similar fashion, et al.)
>
> I've CC-ed Chris Aillon (Red Hat's guru of all things Gecko/Mozilla) on
> this; as I'd like to get his opinion this. Chris, how feasible would
> this be? :] Thanks!
> --

Separate rpms would be an improvment. Also separate packages for the
search plugins would be nice. Almost the first thing I do after
uprading firefox is, e.g.

rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/extensions/langpack*
rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/searchplugins/*

Chris