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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

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