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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Those are the same language packs currently installed on the phone
images as well. This is what I meant by them including too much. A very
large number of the translations provided by these -base packages are
totally not useful on the phone. Heck, a very large number of the
translations aren't even applicable to the default install on a PC from
the ISO either. It will likely be quite a lot of work to get them split
up properly into meaningful packs, and I don't know if there is any plan
to invest in doing that.

And while it will help reduce the size to do that cleanup, it doesn't
fix the issue of how to upgrade them independently of the image itself,
or how to enable translations for other languages not on the image.

On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 23:15 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> So on my system, I currently have the following language pack .debs installed:
> 
> language-pack-en
> language-pack-en-base
> language-pack-gnome-en
> language-pack-gnome-en-base
> 
> And there is a language-pack-kde-en package I could install for
> additional KDE specific localisation.  So there already seems to have
> been an attempt to provide more focused localisation.
> 
> If we wanted to use language packs on the Ubuntu Touch image, it
> doesn't seem out of the question to provide language packs that cover
> only the touch image, which should minimise the storage impact.
> 
> James.
>