Christian Rose wrote: > On 4/20/08, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> However, for most packages we install all available translations, so >> koffice and openoffice are rather unusual examples. > > > Indeed -- on multi user systems, you may very well have users that > prefer some language, and other users that use another. And a third > group of users that use a third language, and so on. Including all > translations means everyone can benefit from the same system. > > So, unless there's a very compelling disk space issue, I see no need > for starting to split translations as seperate rpms. In addition to disk space there is the bandwidth and time for updating them. 30% of Fedora is language packs, dictionaries, fonts, locales, etc. There are important use cases where a small subset (1 to 3 languages) are all that is ever used, and avoiding the rest would save around 25% of the total cost. I run an independent distribution facility for current Fedora releases (not a full mirror), and that cost is non-trivial. For instance, it's the difference between installing on a 2GB flash memory device, instead of a 4GB device. It's the difference between 22GB and 35GB of storage for my facility. That straddles a boundary in the monthly price that I pay. It is particularly *IDIOTIC*, especially from the view of a distributor, that many such .rpms are specific to an architecture, so that a language pack comes in .i386, .x86_64, and .ppc flavors instead of just .noarch. -- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
