On Thursday 02 June 2011 16:28:56 Bill Nottingham wrote: > > 1) "This feature will also allow firefox and thunderbird to earn > > langpacks as they deserve." > > It certainly allows for it - it requires that the packagers take advantage > of it. ISTR discussions in the past that the mechanics of creating the > langpacks in the spec file wasn't something they wanted to deal with at the > time. yum-langpacks can't help with that part. That is fair, thanks for the note. > > 2) In the Optional/longer term ideas: > > "3. recommendation for Packaging Guideline for standard naming of > > langpacks (eg <basename>-langpack-<lang>)" > > > > > > > > This seems an easy step, both to standardize the form of <lang> as well > > as to suggest a virtual provides to packages that already provide this, > > I am thinking in this case of packages like kde-i18n* or kde-i10n*. > > These virtual provides should be there for any langpack that exists. I > suppose I should write an official packaging guideline for this. That would be great, I think that this is a case where we can see the work that is intrinsic to the coordination effort of a linux distribution. Thank you for your work on this feature. > Bill -- José Abílio -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
