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