Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:58:50 -0600 (CST)
Subject: RE: [alpine-devel] more on language packs
From: "Matt Smith" <mcs@darkregion.net>
To: "Natanael Copa" <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
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On Tuesday, January 4, 2011 4:53am, "Natanael Copa" <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>=
=0Asaid:=0A..snip..=0A> Then will abuild automatically crate the subpackage=
s $pkgname-lang-bg=0A> $pkgname-lang-ca $pkgname-lang-cs... etc. It wil tak=
e=0A> "$pkgdir"/usr/share/locale/$lang* so that pt and pt_BR both comes int=
o=0A> $pkgname-lang-pt and en_CA en_GB both goes into $pkgname-lang-en etc.=
=0A=0AThat sounds good.=0A=0A> It will also create a proper install_if.=0A=
=0AAlso nice.=0A=0A> This will increase the number of packages significantl=
y. I'm not sure=0A> if or how we could group languages together.=0A> =0A> T=
houghts?=0A=0APerhaps not exactly what you were wanting, but what if we mad=
e a=0A'language-variation' of the use-flags idea, and then hid all installe=
d=0Alanguage subpackages by default, with an option to view them.=0A=0ASuch=
 as:=0AUSE_LANG=3D"en pt" (in /etc/apk.conf or something?)=0A=0AThen with a=
pk:=0Aapk version | grep $pkgname  #shows only *$pkgname*=0Aapk version --s=
how-lang-subpkg | grep $pkgname  #also shows lang subpkgs=0A=0A(As a side n=
ote, would it be doable to implement wildcards into=0A'apk version' and per=
haps other apk subcommands?  ie, apk version *php*)=0A=0AUpdating 'USE_LANG=
' to add or remove languages would also affect=0A'apk upgrade'; additional =
languages would be installed, while the ones=0Athat were removed, get unins=
talled.=0A=0AI don't want to force the user to use any use-flags, but if at=
least=0A'USE_LANG' is implemented, we would need to have some sort of defau=
lt=0Alanguage, if we do decide to adopt language subpackages.  Maybe hardco=
de=0Aa default of English while allowing the user to override it completely=
=0Awith 'USE_LANG'?=0A=0AMatt



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