On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:10:53PM +0200, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes wrote: > No, it's the other way around. The symlink above is not needed, because > German > OOo will look up help from the de directory.
Yes, you are right. I didn't get this behaviour when I tried doing this last time; the wrapper script bug must have got in the way or something. Thanks for the info. > I don't know the Mandrake packages, but perhaps they are even more > sophisticated? A possible improvement would be to allow partial help > packages, with for example only Writer help. This will not work without > modifying the source. Mandrake's patch looks for help in <lang> and falls back to en (?) if that is not available. Improvements that involve source modifications would be better off taken to upstream's bug reporting system - we don't have to manpower to manage those on top of the packages. > The simple solution is to remove the conflict, and remove the symlink en -> > language. Then you can have multiple help packages installed without any > problems at all. Yes, that sounds like a good idea. > I don't know what would be the best way to implement the symlinks I propose > (language -> en). Perhaps the openoffice.org-help-en package could create > them all at once, skipping those that are already installed. Any other help > package would then have to check if the symlink to en exists, and remove it > before installing the translated files. Mandrake's patch is probably a better solution, or maybe we can find a configuration variable somewhere that specifies the directory - maybe I accidentally found it when I was experiencing different behaviour to you. Chris
