Re: Installing many languages of docs

[Shuichi OONO <jr5pdx@debian.or.jp>]

# debian-doc@lists.debian.org から勝手に引っぱって来ました…。

debconf の configuration data の翻訳を全部 install するのは
さすがに効率が悪いんじゃないか、という話なんですが、

At 25 Sep 1999 22:28:15 -0400,
Adam Di Carlo <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Wyn Snow <dragonscale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I'm happy with any system that doesn't insist that I install all the
> > languages of the docs.  Installing all of them first and then erasing
> > what I don't need doesn't work for me either.
> 
> Well, it's a good suggestion.  Hopefully we can start working on this
> sort of problem in earnest after potato releases.
> 
> Post-installation removal of certain documentation based on language
> must be based either on known conventions of file name, in some cases,
> and in other cases, a metadata system which identifies the language of
> documents.
> 
> The metadata system we have now in doc-base isn't rich enough for
> this, unfortunately, but there is a plan for beefing this up, which
> however has been in my lap for over a year now and I haven't made
> great progress.  Again, I hope to pick this up right after potato
> release.
> 
> As for postinstallation removal, that also requires that the "hooks"
> mechanism of dpkg be added.  Not sure what the prospects of this ever
> happening are.  Nightly cron jobs might be an okay comprimise.
> 
> --
> .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>

不要な物は postinst とかで消しちゃえという、ちょっと乱暴な(?)
意見が出ています。(鵜飼さんが文句言ってました ^^;)

以前、翻訳物を別パッケージにして apt とかに handle させるという
提案が岡さん(?)あたりからあったように記憶しているのですが、
メリットやデメリット、方法論や問題点をはっきり覚えていません。

とりあえず Lists-Archives を探せばいいんですが、現実味のある話
として、もう一度検討(?)してから org に提案するのはどうでしょうか。

とりあえず半分くらい書きかけたのですが、いまヘタにやっても
時期尚早ということで片づけられそうな気がしたので…。

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