First set of language packs out for testing

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Jan 18 13:57:40 CST 2005


On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:03:43PM -0500, thtde wrote:

> Martin Pitt Wrote: 
> >  * language-support-$LANG:
> > Empty metapackage that depends at least on language-pack-$LANG and
> > language-pack-$LANG-update, and additionally on all
> > Mozilla/FireFox/Thunderbird/OpenOffice.org/myspell/font/whatever
> > packages that are appropriate and useful for this particular
> > language. This is the package that is supposed to be installed by
> > d-i.
> > 
> 
> I think you should also build another meta-package like
> language-support that depends not on language-pack. That is very useful
> for people who write articles etc in different languages and don't need
> the full language pack. So they can install spellchecker, fonts etc for
> a language with one meta-package.

This sounds like a pretty good idea actually, to separate localized
applications from support for reading/writing documents in a particular
language.  Martin?

-- 
 - mdz



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