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  • From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO size and locale availability
  • Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:05:08 -0600 (CST)



On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Hamish Greig wrote:

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> Can I get some idea of how people feel about me removing most of the locale
> stuff from the iso_root ?
> Because sorcery itself is in english, the installer is in english and the
> installer guide is in english I can't see a good reason for having close 25
> MB of locale data in the iso_root.
> Once I have finished additions to the installer and the install.guide has
> been
> rewritten, I would like to have some people translate both into some of the
> more common languages (french, german, insert-your lang-here, etc), and
> then
> have a language selection menu during boot, so these locales wouldn't be
> removed.
> But I estimate it would save between 15 -20 MB.

Sounds completely reasonable to me. As translations are made, include the
locales on the iso.

-casey




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