Dimitris Glezos (dimitris@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > We have two options: one, to have a big `fedora-langpack.rpm` and the other to > split it in different languages (`fedora-langpack-de.rpm` etc). (if you're on fedora-trans, you've already seen this) As an application author and user, I find this to be a remarkably bad idea. 1) It divorces the translation from the application, making string changes => .po file non-automatic. 2) It ties all the translated applications together as a whole, making it impossible for single applications to be logically extracted for other people to pull from, whether it's another distribution or another project. 3) It wastes space for anyone that wants to install a subset of the package space. 4) It ties all the translated applications together as a whole when they have disaprate development and update cycles - some tools get new upstream versions pushed for earlier releases, and some do not. Attempting to track this is going to be more work for the translation team. 5) For every language that's added, it requires modification to the comps file t add the appropriate metadata so that the right thing happens. In short, I think it would be a tremendous mistake to go to this model for Fedora. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
