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Re: chosing debconf frontends based on choice of language



On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:08:32PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Praveen A (pravi.a@gmail.com):

> > For proper display of Malayalam gnome/kde front end to debconf is
> > required. Is there an option to select debconf frontend during
> > installation if the user choses Malayalam? It would be also true for
> > other languages which cannot be displayed properly with curses.

> As of now, no there is no such option.

> This would be an interesting feature to add to debconf itself, maybe.

Something higher up in the installer would need to be responsible for this
decision; Using the gnome/kde frontends requires installing packages that
are only Suggests: of debconf (gnome-utils/libgnome2-perl, or libqt-perl).

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