Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Greenland | There have been proposals in the past to allow filtering of directories | in dpkg for precisely this reason. I don't know whether it turned out to | be infeasable, or just that no one has implemented it. There's an outstanding patch for it in the http://git.err.no/cgi-bin/g

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have been proposals in the past to allow filtering of directories > in dpkg for precisely this reason. I don't know whether it turned out to > be infeasable, or just that no one has implemented it. Looks like it g

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-Sep-08, 08:34 (CDT), Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2008-09-22 16:43:51, schrieb Steve Greenland: > > apt-get install localepurge > > I was thinking on this too but it has an negative impact, since you have > to install the whole thing first... where you can run out of s

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-09-22 16:43:51, schrieb Steve Greenland: > On 20-Sep-08, 19:28 (CDT), Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That's not what he said. If installation of language files (they can still > > be > > in the program package) could be only done for the language(s) that the > > use

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 20-Sep-08, 19:28 (CDT), Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's not what he said. If installation of language files (they can still be > in the program package) could be only done for the language(s) that the user > wants (many systems only will ever use one specific translatio

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-20 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Tuesday 02 September 2008 16:01:17 schrieb Michelle Konzack: > Am 2008-08-31 19:08:49, schrieb Mark Hobley: > > eg: coreutils depends on coreutils-fileutils and > > coreutils-fileutils depends on coreutils-fileutils-head, > > coreutils-fileutils-split > > This would leed into over 200.000 Binary

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-08-31 19:08:49, schrieb Mark Hobley: > eg: coreutils depends on coreutils-fileutils and > coreutils-fileutils depends on coreutils-fileutils-head, > coreutils-fileutils-split This would leed into over 200.000 Binary packages... > It is policy that internationalized (non-english) componen

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Aug-08, 13:08 (CDT), Mark Hobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Packages should not install cruft on the system. This means that a > package should not install a foreign language file, unless the system > has been explicitly configured to support that foreign language. Others have commented

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:08 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > > There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management > system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. Umm, yes they can actually. Emdebian uses this functio

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Mark Hobley wrote: > For any particular package, the full set of binary components, optional > documentation, and unused foreign language support files will be installed > by the package management system. You are not right, general. Packages are often splitted. > A fix would be to make it possibl

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 19:08 +0100, Mark Hobley wrote: > There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management > system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. This > limits the flexibility of Debian based systems when it comes to mixed > installations or inst

Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-08-31 Thread Mark Hobley
Package: general Severity: wishlist There is an annoying flaw in the design of the Debian package management system, which means that packages cannot be partially installed. This limits the flexibility of Debian based systems when it comes to mixed installations or installation on embedded or