about ki18n/locales: installing only a subset?

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:20:38AM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Wednesday December 16 2015 09:03:53 David Faure wrote:
> 
> > Yep, remove them if you don't want them, but then your users are going to complain, unless you provide them separately.
> 
> I think I implied in my original message that I consider providing them separately the ideal solution ;)
> Sadly such an approach is far from trivial to implement (all the more with MacPorts) if the source files are scattered over individual packages instead of being available as complete bundles like they used to be. Or am I missing something?

Many distros successfully make language packs by extracting the .po
files from the software they ship.  It's not possible to do this at
the KDE level because KDE isn't a monolithic software project any
more.

Jonathan