[Minimizing Fedora] Langpacks for Firefox.

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 1 05:15:25 UTC 2007


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>> Not a fight. Act as a bridge for users, collaborate with upstream 
>> (considering that we are a active part of upstream in this case) and 
>> figure out a good solution that does not bloat the package and have 
>> other effects like more resource use or slower speed of startup.
> 
> If you want to solve the package size issue, switch to presto;
> this would save the download size much more than splitting
> off packages for language packs would.

I am using it already. Presto only would save sizes on updates. Not the 
initial download size or other issues. The bigger problem though is that 
Fedora does not have a consistent and documented approach to deal with 
language packs throughout the distribution.

Rahul




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