Re: translation size

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 17:45, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Alexander Kirillov <kirillov@math.sunysb.edu> writes:
> 
> > FYI: KDE (at least, in KDE 2.x) managed this problem by having "language
> > support packages", like kde-i18n-fr, which contains all available French
> > translations of  docs and all .mo files  for fr locale, for *all* KDE
> > apps.
> 
> I don't like this packaging scheme at all.  It forces me to install many
> a lot useless file when I'm interested in one KDE application only
> (KBabel, say).
> 

Would you prefer a separate language-specific version of each package?
The alternative I'm trying to avoid is including all the translated docs
in each package, which would be a lot of useless files for each and
every user.
Cheers,
John
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