[Rule-list] Which packages install unwanted languages?

[Marco Fioretti]

Hello,

I have noticed that several RPM packages happily ignore the language
chosen at install time, and put on disk whatever locale their
maintainers were able to collect. For example, the gkrellm RPM
installs
(on an English-only system):

/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gkrellm.mo
 
and cups:

/usr/share/locale/be/cups_be
/usr/share/locale/cs/cups_cs
/usr/share/locale/de/cups_de
/usr/share/locale/en/cups_en
/usr/share/locale/es/cups_es
/usr/share/locale/fr/cups_fr
/usr/share/locale/he/cups_he
/usr/share/locale/it/cups_it
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU.cp1251/cups_ru_RU.cp1251
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU.koi8r/cups_ru_RU.koi8r
/usr/share/locale/sv/cups_sv
/usr/share/locale/uk/cups_uk
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA.cp1251/cups_uk_UA.cp1251
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/cups_zh_CN

Even funnier is the fact that some files are not locales at all: look
at /usr/share/locale/be/cups_be, for example: plain English.

Can you signal other RPMs that behave in the same way, i.e. that
install *all* the locale files they contain regardless of the system
default? Maybe we could put together a list, and then signal this
issue to the respective maintainers.

        Ciao,
                Marco Fioretti

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