On Sat, 22 May 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote: > 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.] I personally could care less about lacking features in the installer/package-manager. I care more about removing the "choice" and forcing the installation of these i18n files/pkgs upon all users, whether they want/need it or not. -- Rex
