about ki18n/locales: installing only a subset?

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Wednesday December 16 2015 11:48:58 David Faure wrote:

> They are copied into the frameworks at release time. So you can also grab them from
> svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kf5 directly (warning, this is huge)

Ah, good! Svn is a bit of a hog indeed, but IIRC it does make it easier to grab only a subset (supposing the repository is organised by language and not by package).

> See release-tools/update_l10n.sh for the script I use to fetch only the frameworks translations
> in all languages (rather than all translations and all docbooks for all apps in all languages)

What I forgot to raise earlier was a more general question. If interface translation is handled through a dedicated framework, wouldn't it be possible to install the translation files in a well-optimised container? Even with a single container per framework/application/whatever you'd still ought to get significantly more efficient disk usage. Not just re: file size in bytes vs. blocks but I think also on modern COW filesystems like ZFS and btrfs (and filesystem level compression should perform better too).

As I said, this is something about which *I* tend to be principled :)

R.