Hi Richard, On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 26 February 2016 at 09:47, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We have over 180 supported languages >> in glibc, and those have been split into langpacks >> for transparent install and support via dnf. > > What happens if the user isn't using DNF? For the workstation we have > to support users using just the graphical tools, and we can't rely on > command line tools for this kind of thing. I'm happy to add support > for installing lang packs into gnome-software but need to know how the > langpack plugin works so we can add proper support into the AppStream > metadata file. The idea being if the user changes the per-session > language we install the required langpacks automatically. > > Can someone explain how the dnf langpack plugin gets the data on what > application subpackages to install? It would be easy if we could have > a virtual package that we could install for each locale as then we can > just put the metainfo file there for easy support in gnome-software. Please have a look at New Langpacks Change[1] information. With this change we are trying to remove the need of having dnf langpacks plugin. The basic required things are already in F24+ but I have not yet got time to add weak dependencies in all the required langpacks. But I have modified basic required langpacks like hunspell, hyphen, mythes. Then libreoffice, kde-l10n, gnome-getting-started-docs and tesseract has been also built for this new langpacks change. I do have created test page[2] for this new change. I suppose all the langpacks changes will be complete by next week. Please note that I specifically requested Workstation WG to add dnf-langpacks package in comps but later on we decided to use weak dependencies for langpacks. Now users need to just install meta-packages like langpacks-<langcode> to get all the required langpacks installed on the system. If needed we can remove dnf-langpacks from Fedora Workstation installation but I will say better wait till Fedora 24 Alpha release and see if new langpacks implementation has worked fine by that time. Regards, Parag [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LangpacksInstallationWithRPMWeakDependencies [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Langpacks -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
