[Fwd: Re: Firefox updates language packs]

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[Forwarding Chris's reply, since he is not subscribed. ]

Thanks for the explanation, Chris!
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Peter Gordon wrote:
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 00:05 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
Every time a Firefox update is issued, I end up with a ton of language packs
under my "Extensions".  As I use none of them, and they occupy extra memory
and make Firefox take longer to load, I load Firefox as root and delete them
all, one at a time.


The best solution here would probably be to split each langpack into a
subpackage appropriate to the selection of language support at install
time. (E.g., selecting the "Spanish Support" would install the
firefox-langpack-es package; and "Danish Support," the
firefox-langpack-dk package in a similar fashion, et al.)

The installer doesn't pick out packages per language. Pick a random package, such as file-roller or gnome-terminal or NetworkManager and run "rpm -ql file-roller | grep locale" -- you'll see a bunch of other languages you don't use. All the language thing does is select the default language we should use on the system.

The Fedora rule of thumb is that switching languages should be as easy as changing your LANG environment variable.

I'm looking into better solutions, such as speeding up the lang registration, but for now, this is the way things go.

(Not sure if this will go thru since I don't believe I subscribe to fedora-list).
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