Re: Bug#279307: debian-installer: shortcut for language/country/keymap is useful
Quoting Helmut Wollmersdorfer (helmut.wollmersdorfer@gmx.at):
> That's the point.
> Assuming much seems to be convenient for mainstream, but gets
> inconvenient in case of special needs.
> E.g. I want to have English as language for installation,
> administration, messages and man, as this has advantages to find similar
> problems or describe them in newsgroups, forums and bug trackers.
> Keyboard is German, location is Austria (but can change in case of a
> notebook), encoding should be UTF-8.
Well, I do not see any problem here..:-)
All this is technically possible with the current d-i...except
defaulting to a UTF-8 environment (that will be possible as soon as
localechooser replaces lang+countrychooser)
I do not agree about only using English for system administration but
this is a personal feeling which is for sure not enforced anywhere in
d-i....
>
> Developers should always keep in mind, that different users can exist on
> one system, that one user can have different roles, wants to use more
> than one language at the same time etc.
I absolutely don't know where you got the idea that all this is not
possible..:-)
For sure, the default install will not allow you to configure the
locales package for several locales simultaneously. For this, you need
to either use the expert install...or "dpkg-reconfigure locales" when
the installation is over.
> Thus locales should always be choosable and reconfigurable in a
> convenient way without reading tons of manuals. Assuming
> interdependencies, and using inheritance to get senseful defaults is
> o.k. But the user should always have the chance to override the
> defaults, or to change to expert level or even deeper expert levels.
This is exactly how d-i behaves since the beginning..:-)
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