On Sat, 22 May 2004 07:25:13 -0500 (CDT), Rex Dieter wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004 12:23:31 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
> > Speaking of useless large package updates, why does redhat bundle
> > koffice-i18n, k3b-i18n (these are just 2 examples) into the main koffice
> > and k3b rpms, so that any updates to koffice and k3b will also "force
> > users to eat useless large updates"?
>
[some part of the quote is missing here]
> For extra repositories this is also an issue, but a less
important one
> currently as one can obsolete i18n packages in an update any time.
But difficult to the other direction.
That's the same problem as referred to in the part that's missing
in above quote. [Unless package tools are tuned to "know about" i18n
packages and pull them in when necessary.]