kdeextragear policy question

[Waldo Bastian]

On Monday 08 July 2002 09:47 am, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 10:33:17AM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Well, if you're packaging all of KDE, yes. But if you're packaging
> > kwintv, you might want to avoid the 650MB (that's the size of my kde-i18n
> > module - I'm a bit suprised and shoked :) checkout
>
> Perhaps we should split kde-i18n into several modules, per continent or
> a-e,f-i,etcetera or hopefull something better (ideas?). We're already
> releasing them seperately.
>
> Oh, I noticed that there are a lot of languages in CVS who only have a
> couple of percents (or even nothing!) translated of the essentials
> (http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/KDE_3_0_BRANCH/essential.php), is anyone
> actually working on bn,bo,cy,fa,fo,ga,gu,hi,km,ku,mi,mr,sq,tg and wa?

Neither of these two points addresses the issue that you need 650Mb. Splitting 
it up in smaller modules still requires you to check out all modules. 
Removing language that have only a few procent translations will only reduce 
the size with those same few procents.

Cheers,
Waldo
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