On 2016-01-07, Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed one of my packages (elfutils libelf) installs a small library > of 90K but also 1MB of .mo locale files. Given that this package will > always be installed because it is on the critical path I thought it > might be nice to split the locale files out into language packs so > that you could create a smaller install. But I cannot find documentation > on how to create langpacks. Is there a description of the conventions > used for language packs and/or example rpm macros to help create them? > I'm against this because then elfutils will behave differnently than any other packages. If you don't care about elfutils messages, you probably don't care about other package's messages too.
RPM has a run-time macro allowing to exclude localization files from installing them. That's the reason why the message catalog files, if packaged properly, carry a language attribute in the binary RPM package metadata. Utilizing this feature (as well as documentation stripping) is job for a package manager. For DNF. (There is another hypothetical approach based on sub-packaging the message catalogs that resembles your idea, but the approach was postponed until Fedora will have support rich dependencies.) -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
