Re: Fw: gettext support

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 14:47 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:09:02PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > 
> > My main concern is the size of the files we install in /boot/grub.  It's
> > approaching one megabyte already,
> 
> We don't need to do that just because of OFW.  I think the approach of
> installing /boot/grub/ to that tiny filesystem is just wrong (yes, this
> is my fault ;-)).  We could just install core.img there and put
> /boot/grub/ in the standard filesystem.

Yes, I think we'll need to rewrite grub-install to use hfsutils, perhaps
optionally.

> > But installing all *.mo files to /boot/grub would be an overkill in many
> > cases.  I think copying the file for the current language should be
> > enough.  The same language should be specified in grub.cfg when it's
> > generated.
> 
> Yes.  We can only support one language anyway (the system-wide language,
> which is what grub-mkconfig will use when generating strings for grub.cfg).
> 
> Also, if *.mo files contain plain text, compression would work well on
> them.  They could be gzipped.

Good point.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin