Re: potato cd's and l10n
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:17:29PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer 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?
You forget the fonts... :) And those dialogs take about 940K uncompressed..
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Misha
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