Denis Barbier wrote: > Isn't English spoken in quite a lot more countries than United States? ;) > Why is United States a good default value whereas France is not for French > speaking people? Because the US is reasonably well connected to everywhere and has Debian's main round-robin mirror network in it. If these facts of servers and network topology should change, we should then change the default of course. A lot more languages than English are spoken in the US too. You really think a Spanish speaker in California or Tennessee wants to hit a mirror in Spain? > Then why is a default value provided? A default value is probably going to be *shown* whether you explicitly provide one or not. Whatever country starts with "A" and is at the top of the list is probably not a good choice. > Seriously my feeling is that users are getting bored when they > choose a language and provided default values do not take this > information into accout (when choosing keyboard layout, mirrors, > default system language, etc.). Bored? If you want to provide sane location-based defaults, then ask the user where they are. This information, if in a reasonable form, can be re-used by base-config, which already has to ask about it for time zone setup. (Or do you think I should force all French speaker's computers to be set to GMT when they install? :-P) -- see shy jo, listening to Spanish on the radio in Tennesee, oddly enough
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