Re: Definition of COUNTRY (Was: Resignation)
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:12:17AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Adam Majer wrote:
> > Indeed. The word "country" needs to be replaced by "locale" or
> > similar.
>
> That's a good choice, actually, especially given that the technical
> name for the thing which this selection is used for is indeed
> "locale". Despite the "language_country" form of locales (which was
> misguided in the first place and misimplemented in the second place),
If that needs to be solved, it's well out of the scope of d-i.
> effectively the only thing the "country" is used for is picking the
> locale code.
That is not true. It's used to produce a reasonable default choice of
mirror on businesscard and netinst images, and similarly in the process
of setting up /etc/apt/sources.list after the first reboot. It could
also be used to produce a reasonable default choice of timezone,
although I'm not sure if it actually is at the moment.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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