[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: automatic creation of langpacks subpackages (#310)

[Jeff Johnson]

I was referring to LINGUAS (which get text uses to determine what locales are included and installed).

E.g. the Icelandic is.po file in RPM likely hasn't been touched for years: examining the contents shows that many strings have not been translated.

LINGUAS can be used to disable installing what is mostly useless (because untranslated) content.

Analogous to LINGUAS, automating language sub-packages would involve choosing which languages are "useful" (as in fully translated) and "supported". Automating the selection (and adding manual disabler/enabler override logic to give package monkeys the illusion of choice) involves choosing metrics for making the choice.

At some point -- just like with LINGUAS -- its just a list of locales that map to paths that get added to a sub-package.

Meanwhile since the real goal here (see your example above claiming a savings of ~100Mb) is to get rid of perceived "bloat" in *.rpm packages, devising a mechanism to support some imaginary policy that creates language sub-packages when "needed" is mostly a waste of time.

Teaching package monkeys how to control language sub-package automation will be much much harder than just leaving bad enough alone.

It really isn't all that hard to type in a list of locales that you want as sub-packages: you just have to care enough to do that.

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