OpenOffice i18n pack.

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Sun Nov 9 18:53:57 UTC 2003


On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:19:27PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Anyway, for modem users the diskspace isn't the actual problem. It's the
> size of the openoffice.org tarballs allocating bandwidth and producing
> phone costs. 
> Remember, Fedora can be installed selectively via yum/apt from a distant
> server, which can help modem users save a lot of bandwidth/money.

E.g. with glibc-common, separating the rpm into smaller rpms per locale is
a bad idea, since locales which can be hardlinked (e.g. lots of UTF-8
locales use identical (and quite big) LC_CTYPE and/or LC_COLLATE) suddenly
cannot be and thus eat way more disk space.

	Jakub





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