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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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