On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:40:15PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:04:16AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > I want to split up the locales and i18ndata packages from glibc in to some > > more sanely sized packages. I'm not sure of two things: > > > > a) How much granularity? I've thought of doing this by continent (North > > America, Europe, Asia, etc...). Does this make sense? I'm no geography > > guru, so some help would be needed so I don't have to break out a world > > map. > There's a bug open on kde-i18n for trying the same thing. As Joey points out, > these are all inefficent hacks instead of getting it right. > > For a), you would have one big package for Europe, two smaller packages > for Asia and South America, and the rest of the continents would only > have two or three locales. (en_US, en_CA, es_MX for North America, en_AU > for Austrila, etc.)
How about splitting on the two-letter language parts? It's much more likely that en_UK (or is it en_GB?) will want to install en_US than es_ES, even though they're geographically closer. -dsr-
