[Minimizing Fedora] Langpacks for Firefox.
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 1 05:15:25 UTC 2007
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said:
>> Not a fight. Act as a bridge for users, collaborate with upstream
>> (considering that we are a active part of upstream in this case) and
>> figure out a good solution that does not bloat the package and have
>> other effects like more resource use or slower speed of startup.
>
> If you want to solve the package size issue, switch to presto;
> this would save the download size much more than splitting
> off packages for language packs would.
I am using it already. Presto only would save sizes on updates. Not the
initial download size or other issues. The bigger problem though is that
Fedora does not have a consistent and documented approach to deal with
language packs throughout the distribution.
Rahul
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