Hi - repost since it's quite unusual to not receive a reply - not sure whether it did make it to the list at all....
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi *, > > While thinking about the download page and size constraints and > whatnot, I realized that the languagepacks for Mac Intel and Mac PPC > are physically duplicated, not hardlinks or symlinks on the mirrors. > > This is not necessary. > > The way I did write it back, the languagepacks did work for both Intel > as well as PPC versions, as no bytecode is included in those, but just > data files. > > The only thing that could be affected is help, when there are Mac > Intel/Mac PPC specific sections, but I'm not aware of any. > > So an easy way to save some MB on the mirrors is to only ship one > languagepack, for both Intel as well as PPC - not to mention the > discrepancy wrt. available languages. > > Whether using hardlinks or just one single file is a matter of taste, > the hardlink one provides smooth transition at least... > > ciao > Christian > _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
