Re: Changes to rpmstrate (or localedrake?) for zh_TW

pablo-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] writes:

> Currently I think all the locales in the LANGUAGE variable of all
> requested languages are concantened together; and all packages for all
> of those locales are installed.
> So the behaviour should be changed to:
>
> * for each requested language do:
> 	* look at its LANGUAGE variable, and install packages for
> 	  the first matching locale (it may be different locales for
> 	  different packages)

currently it's not done that way at all, since it can't work for
mozilla-firefox-*. we do:

for each package do:
   * if it requires locales-xxx, select it iff that locales is
   selected

we'll have to change one day, so that rpmsrate format can be
simplified and get rid of clean-rpmsrate. for this, virtual provides
must be added, even for things like mozilla-firefox-* which do not
have a main package, only l10n packages (kde-i18n-*, koffice-i18n-*,
koffice-l10n-* already have a provide)

when it's done, we can replace "mozilla-firefox-de mozilla-firefox-fr"
to be expanded by clean-rpmsrate into "main-firefox-l10n", and then we
can do what you suggested

(i've posted a mail on cooker in may 2006 about this:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=114778863523512&w=2)