Le Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Richard Atterer écrivait: > > And that's a mirror where we I only have i386. So multiply by 10 arch, > > then by 50 languages, and you get 10Gb of Packages file. We could reduce > > that if we remove uncompressed Packages but still ... > > > > And a good part of those packages files changes daily ... so the mirror > > need to download many data each day. That's not acceptable. > > Oh, but you're not comparing this to the requirements for centralized > translation packages: If you do, there is no difference, *if* you > assume that the translation packages would also have to be released > per arch.
First : . a .deb package is compressed whereas "Packages" file from the mirror are not . i explicitely stated that the translation would be "Architecture: all" packages So there's a *big* difference if you take the time to calculate the numbers. > Furthermore, as mentioned before, translation packages have the > disadvantage that new Descriptions, i.e. _the_ones_you_are_most_likely > _to_look_at_, will *not* be translated because you haven't yet > downloaded the latest translation package. I already said that in my very first email ! I acknowledge this as a limitation. But since the goal is to be able to display translated description for our users (who are using stable, no ?) ... it's not a big deal if the geeks who are running unstable don't see the translation while it doesn't exist yet (or while they haven't updated their packages description file) ! > You might argue that it's not necessary to make the translation > packages arch-dependent. I think that's debatable, as some arches are > way out of sync. gettext would help a bit, at the cost of depriving Beeing out of sync or not is not a problem since Description fields changes *very* rarely. All arches would benefit from the same number of translations ... And I find that having translations is far better that having not a single one and refusing to add them because we can't have the perfect solution right now. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com