On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:45:52 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 21:32 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:57:16 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: [....] >> > The language packs are part of >> > the Firefox rpms. So you have to remove them each time after you do >> > a Firefox update. >> >> Aaarrgghhhh : I update firefox more days than not. >> >> *Why* are the rpms that way?? Can an ordinary non-technoid get >> them out? Or get rpms without them somewhere?? If the latter, what will >> happen when something involving Firefox turns up on a yum update?? > > Do you mean you update FF using its builtin updater rather than with > yum? (I'm talking about FF itself of course, not the add-ons). In my > system the "Check for updates" menu item is greyed out. Yes, the Firefox updater, which always finishes by telling you to restart Firefox -- whereupon, of course, it usually hangs .... That's as big a reason as any why I'm thinking -- very reluctantly, but seriously -- of giving up on it, at least for a year or three. > And I don't see any language packs other than English and Spanish, which > are the ones I've enabled. The others are there of course (I can enable > them if I want), but they don't get in the way and I strongly doubt they > using any resources other than a modest amount of disk space (11MB on my > system). > > I'd seriously doubt this has anything to do with slow start-times. Probably true, except perhaps on the older smaller EEEPCs (one of which I have -- but seldom use), where every megabyte matters. But it was worth trying. I don't suppose I'll have much idea for a few days whether any of this has hit some magic button somewhere. If not, I'll just start uninstalling apps I can do without if I have to, nice or not .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
