Bugzilla – Bug 1224069
Missing Language dependencies
Last modified: 2024-06-26 23:14:09 UTC
Currently when I install Kalpa and I choose Norwegian for example, after the installation I am greeted with a system that is half Norwegian/English, even more so than normal. This seems to be because of missing *-lang packages which you can fix by installing them through transactional-updates. IMHO these packages should be installed by default especially when American English is not picked in the installation process.
This is an issue that we're still looking into, as it's not an easy problem to solve. But we're not ignoring it.
(In reply to Shawn Dunn from comment #1) > This is an issue that we're still looking into, as it's not an easy problem > to solve. > > But we're not ignoring it. I'm curious about why is complex to address this, if you don't mind sharing.
Partially because I'm currently in the process of reworking Kalpa to use the Tik installer, rather than YaST, as part of progressing Kalpa to a beta release state. Fixing issues in the YaST based installer is low priority at this point. Additionally, Kalpa doesn't install `Recommends:` by default, which is part of how we keep the base install image so slender. That's the mechanism through which Leap/Tumbleweed/Slowroll ensure that `-lang` packages get installed. And at least at present, there's no way to tell zypper "Install all of the list of $X packages --no-recommends, but make sure that you install the -lang packages that are listed as Recommends:"
I have no idea about what is the Tik Installer. What type of project is it? Where can I know more about it? Does this installer run "zypper install" in a loop of a list of packages to be installed by the installer? If so, it doesn't looks a very big deal. Some small program could automate the generation of a "lang" package list to be installed as well.
https://github.com/sysrich/tik