Re: How many people need locales?
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:25:04AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:16:25AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:24:43AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > > #include <hallo.h>
> > > Santiago Vila wrote on Mon Sep 03, 2001 um 02:21:04AM:
> > >
> > > > I think we can consider the volume or the number of subscribers of the
> > > > debian-user mailing list, and compare it with the volume or the number
> > > > of subscribers of all other language-specific debian-user-foo lists
> > > > combined. Is there anybody who can do this count?
> > > >
> > > > Can you think of another way to estimate the proportion of users using
> > > > locales?
> > >
> > > I really wish to make the locales beeint installed by default, either
> > > allways, or with some user interacton (yes/no, which locale etc.). IMO
> > > this should be included as one of the first questions in baseconfig.
> >
> > With an installed size of over 8megs, I don't think that is such a good
> > idea.
>
> maybe you don't use it, but a lot of user don't speak english or can't
> understand it. We must support locales and if a user can't speak
> english he pay this price.
This isn't a matter of not using it, it's a matter of a sane base
install. Perhaps base-config could ask if the user wants locales. Know
what? That question is being asked in english _anyway_.
Installing locales by default doesn't even come close to solving this
problem, so there is no point in including it by default.
Ben
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