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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:25:29 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        tadayuki.okada@windriver.com, demon@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/misc/kde2-i18n Makefile pkg-plist   ports/misc/kde2-i18n/scripts Configure
Message-ID:  <3AD317D9.6FB782D0@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200104101417.f3AEHBA53502@aldan.algebra.com>

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Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> On 10 Apr, Tadayuki OKADA wrote:
> > Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> >> > Any plan to use separate distfiles?
> >> > # 40MB file for one language is ridiculous.
> >> It is _source tarball_ which occupies 40MB.
> >> You can easily make separate packages for each language (see russian/kde2-i18n
> >> for example).  This package is much smaller that 40MB.
> >> Install from packages and you will save bandwidht...
> > You are right. I can't optimize messages, can I?
> > Sorry for the miscomplaint.
> > I haven't used pkgs for years except for cvsup-bin.
> >
> > I'll send ja-kde2-i18n port, if you are not going to do.
> > # It's just two chracters change, though.
>
> Gentlemen, please! Why can't _one_ port handle this all? There are
> dozens of languages supported by KDE. Do we want to add dozens versions
> of this ports?

This sucks, because there is no way to instruct package cluster to build
language-specific packages. Properly constructed master and several slave ports would
do it. In this case slave ports would contain a single Makefile with only several
lines, most of which are the same across all slaves.

> The single port can ask which languages are desired, fetch those
> tarballs and install them...

As far as I understood, there is only one 40MB tarball with all supported languages
and it is the problem in question.

-Maxim


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