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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO size and locale availability
  • Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:52:27 -0800

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> 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.
>
> Hamish

Well, since the user theoretically has to recompile glibc anyways they could
/then/ choose their locale (unless it's one of the few kept ones). And I
personally think our installer need only en_US (since that's our "default"
language for documentation ;)) until we actually have translations that can
use
the locales.

-sandalle

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