Re: [Fwd: Re: Firefox updates language packs]

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On 2/6/07, Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[Forwarding Chris's reply, since he is not subscribed. ]

Thanks for the explanation, Chris!
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christopher Ailllon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:21:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Firefox updates language packs
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.

This isn't universally true, kde for example seems to have separate
language packs. And if they were a hidden part of firefox (in the
sense that the examples you give are all hidden) then probably no-one
would much care about them. But they overwhelm the extensions list
*and* cannot be removed by the end user within firefox. There has to
be a better way.

Chris


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