Re: How many people need locales?

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:24:43AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> Santiago Vila wrote on Mon Sep 03, 2001 um 02:21:04AM:
> 
> > I think we can consider the volume or the number of subscribers of the
> > debian-user mailing list, and compare it with the volume or the number
> > of subscribers of all other language-specific debian-user-foo lists
> > combined. Is there anybody who can do this count?
> > 
> > Can you think of another way to estimate the proportion of users using
> > locales?
> 
> I really wish to make the locales beeint installed by default, either
> allways, or with some user interacton (yes/no, which locale etc.). IMO
> this should be included as one of the first questions in baseconfig.

With an installed size of over 8megs, I don't think that is such a good
idea.

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