On Sat, 22 May 2004 07:25:13 -0500 (CDT), Rex Dieter wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 May 2004 12:23:31 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > > > > Speaking of useless large package updates, why does redhat bundle > > > koffice-i18n, k3b-i18n (these are just 2 examples) into the main koffice > > > and k3b rpms, so that any updates to koffice and k3b will also "force > > > users to eat useless large updates"? > > [some part of the quote is missing here] > > For extra repositories this is also an issue, but a less important one > > currently as one can obsolete i18n packages in an update any time. > > But difficult to the other direction. That's the same problem as referred to in the part that's missing in above quote. [Unless package tools are tuned to "know about" i18n packages and pull them in when necessary.]
