Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:11:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > The task information comes from Task: lines in the Packages file. To > whit: You are right, I forgot about that. > Package: foo-locale-es > Task: desktop & spanish, office & spanish > > And then tasksel and aptitude and anything els

Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > Doing this would probably involve multiplying the number of language > > tasks by the number of other tasks. Yeilding tasks like desktop-spanish, > > etc. This would quickly become hard to maintain, I'd think. > > No, I meant that the tasksel definition co

Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Joey Hess [Fri, Jul 25 2003, 02:50:52PM]: > because the spanish task, like many tasks, pulls in -ll packages like > openoffice.org-l10n-es and mozilla-locale-es-es. These tend to be split ... > - Make the -ll packages only recommend the main packages, as the kde > ones do. > - Put th

Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
> They could probably conflict and recommend to get the right version of > mozilla, and then mozilla would have to deal with registering languages > installed before it. Will try, thanks for the tip. > > For example: if you selected task 'Spanish' and 'Desktop' you get both > > kde's and gnome l

Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-26 Thread Joey Hess
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Unfortunately, this cannot be done easily for mozilla, at least, since > translations for a version will not work (and will probably break) other > versions. Also, it depends on mozilla being available to register the > locale. They could probably conflic

Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-26 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:50:52PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: tasksel, general > Version: 1.25 > Severity: normal > > If you pick the Spanish language task in tasksel, you will get mozilla > and openoffice installed, which is often not the desired effect. This is That not only happens wit

Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
Package: tasksel, general Version: 1.25 Severity: normal If you pick the Spanish language task in tasksel, you will get mozilla and openoffice installed, which is often not the desired effect. This is because the spanish task, like many tasks, pulls in -ll packages like openoffice.org-l10n-es and