[master] First step to using langtable

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Thu Jun 13 00:33:55 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 04:57:22PM +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> This is the first step to using the great new langtable package. It allows us to
> remove many magic things and moves the responsibility having right data to a
> different package that can be updated, patched and reviewed by the experts from
> that area. The intention is to also remove the usage of python-babel entirely
> (will require some further, more significant, changes). This first step does
> only the safe changes and should preserve the behaviour we had.
> 
> I'd really like to see this patch also in the f19-branch, but I understand it is
> quite a significant change. However, it shouldn't cause and problems and brings
> one nice surprise -- Anaconda's RSS lowered by ~20 MB! The langtable package is
> very small (after some recent improvements), it has less than 500 KB and the
> next release with my changes included won't have any dependencies (the current
> version has a 2.5MB python-lxml as a dependency).

I made a boot.iso with these changes on top of 19.30.5 to make it easier
to give it a bunch of testing. The change is fairly intrusive, but 20M
of memory savings could be worth it.

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/anaconda/anaconda-19.30.5-langtable.iso

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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