[packagekit] installing languages

[Rodrigo Moya]

On vie, 2011-07-08 at 11:40 +0100, an unknown sender wrote:
> On 8 July 2011 11:32, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo at gnome.org> wrote:
> > The method to know the packages to be installed differs from distro to
> > distro. For instance, Ubuntu has a script:
> >
> > $ check-language-support -l es
> > firefox-locale-es gimp-help-es libreoffice-help-es libreoffice-l10n-es
> > myspell-es openoffice.org-hyphenation wspanish
> > $ check-language-support -l en_GB
> > firefox-locale-en gimp-help-en hyphen-en-us mythes-en-au mythes-en-us
> > openoffice.org-hyphenation
> 
> You you know how exactly check-language-support works? Does it do it
> by looking in /usr/share/locale for subpackages of packages already
> installed?
> 
AFAICS, it does so checking the packages that provide translations and
associating them with the packages with the binaries (gnome, firefox,
libreoffice, etc)

> This also needs a little more work, as if we do:
> 
> InstallResource ("locale", "es")
> - firefox-es gets installed
> InstallPackage ("thunderbird")
> 
> Do we also install thunderbird-es? Logic would say yes, although that
> would mean keeping a system wide "list of installed languages"
> somewhere. This seems a little bit of feature creep for PK, although
> I'd have no problem at all if PK was to gain support for a
> newly-created /etc/xdg/installed-system-languages type file. I think
> yum also has some kind of functionality to auto-install languages
> using some hacky plugin but I'm not sure how they do it.
> 
I think this is a task for the different backends, isn't it?

> > Not sure how other distros do it, so I was thinking about having a:
> > InstallResource ("locale", "es")
> 
> InstallResource ("locale", "ES_es") surely?
> 
ES_es? es_ES maybe, but not sure ES_es is correct?