Bug#308020: unpacking all localizations by default to simplify multi-lang installations
severity 308020 wishlist
retitle 308020 locales should provide locales-all package
thanks
At Sat, 07 May 2005 11:56:03 +0000,
Tony Ma wrote:
> I try to install Debian Sarge onto my machine with multiple languages using
> the Debian Sarge RC3 installer. Despite I can choose tasks for different
> languages and extensions in the Aptitude program in the installer, I still
> CANNOT use all of these languages after the installation without having to
> first manually run dpkg-reconfigure locales to unpack required locales of
> langauges other than the lang used during installation.
>
> To simplify multi-lang installation, I believe it is a good idea to revert
> to the Woody way and just unpack ALL locales by default.
Yes, IMHO, it's nice to provide both the current locales package and
such locales-all package at the same time in future.
> This will only use
> around 30MB of disk space which should be very trivial in today's system
> given the advances of hard disk capacity.
It's network download speed issue for narrow band users rather than
disk space.
Regards,
-- gotom
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