[Minimizing Fedora] Langpacks for Firefox.

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Apr 27 14:45:00 UTC 2007


Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 08:14 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>>> On my system right now, /usr/share/locale takes up 373MB, dwarfing
>>> whatever Firefox uses.  Splitting out Firefox's langpacks won't solve
>>> your problem.
>> Does that the reason not to splitting Firefox? I think it's only the
>> evidence that someone doesn't know something about macros in rpm
>> configs. )
>>
>> Take a look at %_install_langs macro - we can control installing
>> langpacks using it but not in case of firefox.
> 
> So, this is just a request to add proper %lang annotations to the
> firefox file lists ?
> 

Yes and no, Peter's original request really was for seperate (sub) packages. 
But Peter's problem can be solved too (and probably better) by adding proper
%lang annotations to the firefox file lists. This all AFAIK.

Regards,

Hans




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