[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Selecting language specific stuff to be installed

[Siggy Brentrup]

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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:03:25PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:46:47PM +0100, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>=20
> > An implementation might use a debconf question like locale does or
> > even decide based on which locales are installed, the latter
> > approach with the drawback of requiring a reconfigure of mailman
> > whenever locale is reconfigured.
>=20
> No, no, acting on base of the installed locales is a bad idea. Locales
> are about people using the machine (logged on to it), but Mailman
> languages are about people accessing a website hosted by the
> machine. These things are mostly orthogonal.

Granted, I mentioned it only as a means to avoid a debconf question.

> Besides, unless you put every language in a separate package, the disk
> space requirements don't (really) shrink: One still needs the space
> (temporarily) at install time and at upgrade time.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough about this: in it's postinst script
mailman copies (via ucf) a lot of language specific files from
/usr/share/mailman into /etc/mailman which normally resides on the
root FS where saving some MBs means a difference.  I'm only concerned
about these copies.

So, why do we have conffiles (about 300kB per language) that are never
needed on the root FS?

Regards
=2E Siggy

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