Re: Splitting locales and i18ndata from glibc into some sane packages

[Alexey Vyskubov <alexey@pepper.spb.ru>]

> > > > I want to split up the locales and i18ndata packages from glibc in to some
> > > > more sanely sized packages. I'm not sure of two things:
> > 
> > It's much more likely that en_UK (or is it en_GB?) will want to install
> > en_US than es_ES, even though they're geographically closer.
> 
> I would say the oposite is probable. I f.ex. need de_CH (= I'm living in
> Switzerland) but also cs_CS (= I'm a Czech descendant). Since most
> countries in Europe have ca. ~20% of *officialy* foreign population I

So maybe we can to put *every* locale in its own package and do a lot of
"task-locale-something" packages?

It will help people who install or upgrade Debian with slow modem link.

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