[Minimizing Fedora] Langpacks for Firefox.
Christopher Blizzard
blizzard at redhat.com
Fri Apr 27 12:34:15 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:11 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> > Hello All!
> > I found another one thing that was made unpractically. We got
> > langpacks for 40 different languages that occupies ~12 MBytes from 43
> > Mbytes. This situatuin is drastically dioffers fron one with
> > OpenOffice.org whose langpacks are not shipped with main app.
> >
> > I think that it would be reasonable to split firefox into main
> > application package and many language packs.
>
> On my system right now, /usr/share/locale takes up 373MB, dwarfing
> whatever Firefox uses. Splitting out Firefox's langpacks won't solve
> your problem.
Also, as long as the files are marked with %{lang} (working from memory
here, can't remember if that's right) then the languages you don't want
installed won't be when you install the rpm. You'll still get to
download them, but that's a different issue.
--Chris
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