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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 19:17:15 -0800

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:52, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > 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
>
> the cache of glibc that gets installed to hard-disk will have all the locale
>
> data and all the locales will stull be setup in the locale.archive. No
> recompile will be needed once booted into the new system.
> This is only for the iso_root that runs the installer.
>
> When someone submits a translation of the installer and the install.guide
> that
> language would then become available during install.

Oh, I thought we were getting rid of the separate environments and just have
the
installer copy the system over/use the archives. Or am I confused?

-sandalle

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