Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (8 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 19 October 2011 11:58:19 Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > Coolo asked to change this for 12.1 and download package descriptions as
> > far as available for all RequestedLocales (i.e. the languages to be
> > supported by the system; the ones which get their language specific
> > packages installed automatically).
>
> Whats the rationale for this request ?

Coolo expects a system supporting 'en,fr,de' to be used by English, French and 
German users. If they query packages they want to see English, French and 
German descriptions (if available).

> > I don't know if everybody is happy with this additional download (I guess
> > at most 1M per language), so I also think about adding a zypp.cong option
> > so you can override/tune the new default.
>
> *please* do, refreshings repos should be a fast operation and not be
> bogged down by downloading useless locales.

We can also use the option to override/tune the existing default.

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    Michael Andres

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