On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 08:48 +0000, Caolan McNamara wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 08:52 -0600, Otto Haliburton wrote: > > i.e. downloading openoffice downloads all language flavors > > The older 1.1.X openoffice rpms came with an "i18n" package which > contained all the languages known to OOo. The 2.0.X language support was > split into separate language rpms. If you upgraded from i18n to 2.0.0 > the i18n package was Obsoleted by the pile of new langpack rpms. Because > there was no way to know which languages from the i18n pack were > actually wanted, the only solution was to make all the langpacks > obsolete it, that may have led you astray here ? > > If you installed OOo from scratch and selected only the required > langpacks, or upgraded from i18n and then rpm --erased the unwanted > langpacks then subsequent yum updates should not (and don't for me) > download and install the unnecessary langpacks. > > C. > thanks, that is the only explanation for what happened that I've received, and I applied the equivalent to my system, some one else pointed out a command solution to the problem without explanation. But even with the solution, I was looking to getting a discussion going on developing a user interface for yum since up2date has essentially been disabled. Thanks. -- Otto Haliburton <ottohaliburton@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
