Re: global distribution of debian users (and their paper)

[Torsten Landschoff <torsten@pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 08:55:23AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > We should check the timezone and compute the probable location on the
> > globe then generate a proper default recommendation ;>
> 
> Actually, this isn't as silly as it might appear at first :-)
> I'd like to see a question somewhere early in the installation
> process that asks what country the system is in. That can be used
> to set defaults for a number of following questions, including
> the timezone and the paper size. Also default locale info could

I have to agree. Of course we should not use the timezone to compute the
location but instead ask for the location and compute timezone, isdn mode, 
keyboard table etc. from that.

Thanks

	Torsten