Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org): > > Shouldn't there be spaces between the country names in the Choices list? > > Well, as this is automatically generated, I figured that this wasn't a > problem. The file is only processed by cdebconf which is very happy > with it as it is... That's interesting. This is a place where cdebconf deviates from the debconf spec, apparently; ", " is the official list delimiter. > Well, for sure it is long, but this is the Official List of Countries > in the World.....removing some of these would throw us into very bad > political problems. So let's be very politically correct and use all > of them, including French Southern Territories... I'm pretty sure > Debian is used in Terre Adélie or Kerguelen Islands by the folks of > Météo French there...:-) > > So, our only hope is a world becoming a bit less crazy and stopping to > create new countries monthly..... > > Seriously speaking, the list sorting is more of a concern. > > I first need to add some sorting in English.....and after this, we > will be thrown in the known problem of translations sorting (which is > not countrychooser specific, by the way) Well I was wondering about geographical drill-down, or just geographical groupings/headings in the list: Europe Germany France Spain ... America US Canada Mexico ... But like I said, I'll reserve comment until I've seen it. This is, to my mind, one of the few places where a GUI can really benefit an installer. Although those clicky world maps must be annoying for those who live in very small countries. -- see shy jo
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