From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 6 08:42:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA05711 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:42:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA05706 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:42:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.65] by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0xIFIM-0001fS-00; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:42:06 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA12686; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:41:58 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! To: Sheldon Hearn cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <11890.876128310@axl.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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