Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting
Dmitry Butskoy
buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Wed Mar 19 15:54:27 UTC 2008
Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> said:
>
>> Thats why I have a remote shell tool from a graphical laptop. Only time
>> I would ever be local to the box is when I broke the network, and then I
>> wouldn't be bothering with some font rpm in an odd local. I'd be fixing
>> the network so that I could leave the cold data center and get back to
>> my desk to do real work.
>>
>
> If the non-ASCII-named packages are just fonts (and other locale-
> specific data), I don't see a big problem.
Consider a case when a user have created a local copy of the whole
Fedora repo, and then starts to prepare it.
You have to work with several different font sets...
non-ASCII-named packages, if applicable, must be placed in a separate
repositories (probably non-ASCII-named too), and such repositories are
placed and are useful for the appropriate language areas.
~buc
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