Re: localising base-config - end game

[Phil Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:17, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>  - use the current language and locale as the system default for all
>    users after the second stage installer is finished.

I don't think setting a system-wide default locale is within the
boot-floppies remit at this time.  We should probably leave it up to the
locales and/or localeconf packages to sort this out.  See #137086 for
some discussion of this kind of stuff.

As to the extract_base.c patch: it's kind of tempting to say that
locales should just be installed by default.  Those who want the disk
space more than the i18n can remove it manually during dselect or after
installation.  I certainly don't think there is any point questioning
whether the second-stage installer should use the same language as the
first - you can assume the answer to that will always be yes.

p.