Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:41:57 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! Message-ID: <ML-3.3.876152517.113.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <11890.876128310@axl.iafrica.com>
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> > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:11:39 MST, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > > > What are the sizes if we put all of the basic English packages on CD > > A and the other languages on B? That should yield a dependancy tree > > where packages on A never require packages on B. > > Sadly, this is not the case. See ports/mail/mew for an example of an > English port that relies on a port from another language group. Ok, how does it balance out if we generalize that to 'english only' and 'internationalized'? (Of course, ideally, eventually everything would be internationalized. But I don't expect to see it before DVD-ROM becomes cheap and as common as CD-ROMs are now.) -Pat
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