about ki18n/locales: installing only a subset?

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 15 December 2015 11:19:29 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The KDE4 approach to internationalisation (sic :)) had the huge advantage that it was rather trivial to provide installer packages for individual languages so users could install only those few languages they would actually use.
> It seems that with KF5 we have gotten back in the situation where you get every possible language installed. Now that may be nice for the occasional office prank, but it'll end up amounting to a significant disk overhead (the one that comes with lots of small files) for something that has absolutely no use for the vast majority of users.
> 
> Is there some central mechanism to control which languages are installed? Looking at KF5I18NMacros it would seem that there's only an external "central mechanism"; binning the unwanted files before building...

Yep, remove them if you don't want them, but then your users are going to complain, unless you provide them separately.

The overhead is minimal and allows for modularity.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5