* Carlos E. R.
On 28/10/2021 23.12, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [10-28-21 16:59]:
On 28/10/2021 22.35, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <...> [10-28-21 16:22]:
On 28/10/2021 21.52, Felix Miata wrote:
Patrick Shanahan composed on 2021-10-28 14:38 (UTC-0400):
Some people accept the installation, just remove them later with a cron job.
try removing po4a-lang.
Why would I? :-)
Anyway, I don't have it installed.
to test the possibility of "removing them later with a cron job" which will not work.
Fair enough, but I cannot do the test.
Try:
rpm --erase --force --nodeps po4a-lang
but then you have officially broken the po4a package. I can do the same with zypper, but that is not kosher.
...
one may optionally install *-lang packages, as one desires, but one should also be able to exclude same. because *you* want a lang package does not mean I do. because you want to install a particular package, does not mean that I must also.
No, the language packages can not be made "recommended but not required". That would be way worse and cause severe problems - not for you, but for the rest of the world.
You have to design someway to make those packages default, but opt out.
it is already possible if the packages are correctly build.
Correctly built means requiring all the translations, sorry.
then 98% of the builds are incorrect, just see how many <app>-lang packages exist. those applications do not include lang packages in their rpm's.
That you do not want them is irrelevant from a distribution point of view.
that is correct, but the ability to correctly not install them is not. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times... all things are as they were then, but were you there?