[Libreoffice] [repost] space required on Mirrors - Mac languagepacks: No need to have PPC and Intel seperate

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi - repost since it's quite unusual to not receive a reply - not sure
whether it did make it to the list at all....

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Christian Lohmaier
<lohmaier+ooofuture at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> While thinking about the download page and size constraints and
> whatnot, I realized that the languagepacks for Mac Intel and Mac PPC
> are physically duplicated, not hardlinks or symlinks on the mirrors.
>
> This is not necessary.
>
> The way I did write it back, the languagepacks did work for both Intel
> as well as PPC versions, as no bytecode is included in those, but just
> data files.
>
> The only thing that could be affected is help, when there are Mac
> Intel/Mac PPC specific sections, but I'm not aware of any.
>
> So an easy way to save some MB on the mirrors is to only ship one
> languagepack, for both Intel as well as PPC - not to mention the
> discrepancy wrt. available languages.
>
> Whether using hardlinks or just one single file is a matter of taste,
> the hardlink one provides smooth transition at least...
>
> ciao
> Christian
>