Unwanted RPM dependencies -size of glibc-common locales

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Jeremy Katz wrote:

> This is an incredibly Western-world-centric view of things that goes
> over extremely poorly in many other countries.

If even the Italians can learn to read English, than anybody can!

Ok, seriously: I claim that the language problem is *not* solved
by translating error messages only.  What about man pages?
And filenames?  And command names?

Those partial translations are only going to make things worse,
because you need to make a guess to relate the output with
the input in many cases.

MS-DOS in Italian was real fun: on some errors, it would
print: "(A)nnulla, (R)iprova, (T)ralascia".  The first two
translate to the familiar (C)ancel and (R)etry.  The latter
word means something like "Don't bother", and I never got
to understand what it does :-)



> Adding language support later was a very common request.  I still see
> questions about it now that it's relatively easy... at least now, I can
> give an easy answer ;-)

Isn't it as easy as doing "rpm --replacepkgs -F *.rpm" from the Fedora/
directory?


> They do.  But they also don't support partial installs along these
> lines.  Or at least, if they do, they don't then support using deltarpms
> later

You convinced me that it's so impractical that it's not worth offering.
Anyway, if I compare what we offer with what the other OSes do, we
still give quite a lot of flexibility to the user.

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