[Forwarding Chris's reply, since he is not subscribed. ] Thanks for the explanation, Chris! -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF Associate Member #5015 GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ About: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PeterGordon
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- Subject: Re: Firefox updates language packs
- From: Christopher Ailllon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:21:54 -0500
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Peter Gordon wrote:On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 00:05 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:Every time a Firefox update is issued, I end up with a ton of language packs under my "Extensions". As I use none of them, and they occupy extra memory and make Firefox take longer to load, I load Firefox as root and delete them all, one at a time.The best solution here would probably be to split each langpack into a subpackage appropriate to the selection of language support at install time. (E.g., selecting the "Spanish Support" would install the firefox-langpack-es package; and "Danish Support," the firefox-langpack-dk package in a similar fashion, et al.)The installer doesn't pick out packages per language. Pick a random package, such as file-roller or gnome-terminal or NetworkManager and run "rpm -ql file-roller | grep locale" -- you'll see a bunch of other languages you don't use. All the language thing does is select the default language we should use on the system.The Fedora rule of thumb is that switching languages should be as easy as changing your LANG environment variable.I'm looking into better solutions, such as speeding up the lang registration, but for now, this is the way things go.(Not sure if this will go thru since I don't believe I subscribe to fedora-list).
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