Comment 1 for bug 434173

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

I'm currently working on a command line tool to be run by other applications, which returns the list of missing packages based on a given language code or all languages which are already installed as language-packs on the system.

The original plan was to change the packages, like openoffice.org-core and others to run this script during postinst and display the notification message when something is returned. The user will still need to launch language-selector to install the missing packages.

I hope, that for 10.04 we can integrate this functionality into the installer and update-manager (at least) directly, so that they can dynamically adjust the dependencies during evaluation what to install.
As you know already, this only works if an Internet connection is available. That would need to be solved, too...
I guess this is something for UDS Lucid.