On 2024-04-19 17:51, Martin Wilck via openSUSE Factory wrote:
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 11:50 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
If the languages parts are small, there is no much saving by doing separate packaging. The view in Linux seem to be better install all languages, so that all users of a single machine can choose their own different languages, all being available.
Is this "the view in Linux"? Has it been discussed in the openSUSE project?
I don't know. I say "seems to be" meaning it is my thinking of what seems to be the thinking :-)
I can see the point somewhat - minimalists will just use the "C" locale anyway, and for others the full pack may be most convenient.
It is less resistance, fewer things to do. Disk space is cheap. But bigger updates.
But not me. When I was still a Debian user, "localepurge" used to be my friend.
I heard of it, or similar. Some people have a cronjob removing -lang rpms. (I wrote that before reading your last paragraph)
And: zypper has this feature, so why can't some more packages use it?
Disk space is cheap :-p
Some people still have old laptops without quasi-limitless disk space. Others have better uses for their disk space than storing support file for languages they don't use. And it's not just disk space. It's also backup space, network bandwidth, and precious user time spent waiting for updates to finish.
Yes, absolutely. Ideally, there should be a method to only install the language files one is interested in. Even if the package is a single one for all languages, the installation utilities could be coded to only install the wanted languages "somehow". -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)