Language support packages suggestion

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:50:57AM +0200, Logiotatidis Giorgos wrote:

>         I installed the greek language support pack and noticed that I
> also get
> mozilla installed (I assume because mozilla-locale-el depends on
> mozilla). I think that this shouldn't be happening. Users should
> download support for packages already installed and not new packages
> that are supported. Maybe by writing a pre-installation script to check
> which are installed packages have support and then download the
> translation packages.

This is far more complex than the language support needs to be.  If the
mozille-locale-* packages require Mozilla in order to successfully install,
then the lanuage pack dependency should be downgraded to a Recommends or
Suggests.  If they do not require Mozilla to successfully install, then the
dependency should be removed.

>         BTW what about adding aspell packages to main and install them
> by
> default when installed language support? As far as I know aspell is the
> default spell checker for gnome applications and I think that it should
> be supported. 

This is our intention.  The language support packages should depend on a
dictionary for the language (if available), and via this dependency they
will be brought into main.

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 - mdz