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If you'll take a look at kde-l10n-4.2.2 then you will see that its already |
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splited =) no need to download additional languages. it will download only |
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needed ones. |
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Needed language will be chosen by LINGUAS variable in /etc/make.conf |
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On Среда 22 апреля 2009 16:13:02 Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> in Sabayon we are providing our users kde-l10n split ebuilds (as well |
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> as openoffice-l10n ones) since a long time ago. The split has many |
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> advantages and follows this rationale: |
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> |
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> - Gentoo seems to follow the rule to not split packages over what |
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> upstream does, the inverse condition (merge more packages into one) |
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> should be respected too. |
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> - Gentoo is about choice, providing this alternative way can be a plus |
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> and introduce several advantages for users: |
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> source world advantages: |
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> - it makes possible to add/remove kde-l10n packages without having |
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> to recompile all the localizations every time |
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> - "backward compatibility" kept through kde-l10n-meta ebuild |
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> - ebuild maintenance requirements don't grow with ebuilds' number |
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> growth (5 lines bash script does enough magic on version bumps) |
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> - scalable disk space requirements without the annoying recompilation |
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> phase binary world advantages: |
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> - ability to provide split packages makes possible to support all |
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> the languages without forcing users to install a 500+ mb package |
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> - reduced install time |
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> - reduced disk space |
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> - improved administration power and TCO (add/remove support for a |
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> language becomes trivial) |
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> - scalable disk space requirements |
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> |
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> Invalid complaints ( :P ): |
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> - improved maintenance costs: it's not true, scripting exists for a reason |
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> - There are USE flags: use flags tuning is not possible in binary |
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> worlds and always forces users to recompile (which is not always |
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> possible) |
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> |
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> Reference ebuilds: |
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> - http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/overlay/kde-base |
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> Quick and dirty update script example: |
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> - http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/overlay/kde-base/do-kde-l10n.sh |
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> Example of kde-l10n-meta ebuild: |
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> - |
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> http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/overlay/kde-base/kde-l10n-meta/kde-l10n-meta-4. |
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>2.2.ebuild |
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> |
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> Opinions? |
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Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov |
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Gentoo/KDE |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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Gentoo Team Ru |
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