New category needed for compsXML: i18n

Ryo Dairiki ryo-dairiki at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Aug 18 03:41:00 UTC 2006


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 23:44 +0900, Ryo Dairiki wrote:
>   
>> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:02:27PM +0900, Ryo Dairiki wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'm thinking of writing compsXML for SCIM related packages,
>>>> and I need a new category like "I18n" or "Internationalization" for them.
>>>> Where can I request it? Or just posting here is enough?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I am fairly ignorant on that subject, but aren't I18n related packages
>>> like libraries, and pulled as dependencies by the apps that use them?
>>> Are they of use by themselves?
>>>       
>> Not, really.
>>
>> There are some extra packages in that category.
>> For example, special input methods, and special composing dictionaries.
>>
>> I own "scim-skk", which is yet another input method for Japanese.
>> As you know, the default input method for Japanese in Fedora is 
>> "scim-anthy",
>> which is installed by dependencies on Japanese environments.
>> But there are some people who prefer scim-skk to scim-anthy.
>> For such people, scim-skk must shown in the list of apps to install.
>> Just installed by dependencies is not a good idea.
>>     
>
> There are groups for language support groups that this would be fine for
> adding to
>
> Jeremy
>   

Thanks,

But I don't see any "language*" groups in comps-fe5.xml.in or
comps-fe6.xml.in.
Can I add it by myself?

Ryo




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