Re: potato cd's and l10n

["J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> > 
> > On the other hand, why not have every language in one (big?) boot-floppies
> > pack and a simple language-select box in dbootstrap? 
> > 
> 
> if you want to use 20 disks to install (-:  Seriously, a spanish install can
> always show spanish, a multi lingual has to ask for a choice.

I know absolutely nothing about it, but is it really that big? I'd say I see
<=30 dialogs, with each <=3 screenfulls of text, each <=25*80 chars, so
<=180kB uncompressed = ~60kB compressed per language. Or isn't it that simple?


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer