[Minimizing Fedora] Langpacks for Firefox.

[Christopher Aillon]

Martin Sourada wrote:
> Hans de Goede napsal(a):
>> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 08:14 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> Does that the reason not to splitting Firefox? I think it's only the
>>>> evidence that someone doesn't know something about macros in rpm
>>>> configs. )
>>>>
>>>> Take a look at %_install_langs macro - we can control installing
>>>> langpacks using it but not in case of firefox.
>>>
>>> So, this is just a request to add proper %lang annotations to the
>>> firefox file lists ?
>>>
>> 
>> Yes and no, Peter's original request really was for seperate (sub)
>> packages. But Peter's problem can be solved too (and probably better) by
>> adding proper
>> %lang annotations to the firefox file lists. This all AFAIK.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Hans
>> 
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> 
> I'd like to add my 2$ as well to this issue.. so.. We have usual OSS
> applications that handle locales via *.po/*.mo files. These can (and must) be
> handled in spec file. I don't have any problems with this. But firefox is
> different. Far different. First, it ships langpacks separately from main
> programme, in *.xpi files. 

That's an implementation detail, really.  This discussion should be 
format-independent.  Should I replace the 12 MB of .zip (yes that's all 
.xpi are) files with 20MB+ of uncompressed .po files?  Will that cause 
people to stop complaining?

Second, Firefox's langpacks are extensions not proper
> locale AFAIK. 

AFAIK, this is not a proper argument.  Please explain.