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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO size and locale availability
  • Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:10:02 +1000

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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:05, Casey Harkins wrote:
> 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
>

exactly the plan
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