On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:16:25AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > 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. maybe you don't use it, but a lot of user don't speak english or can't understand it. We must support locales and if a user can't speak english he pay this price. Make a debconf question in base-config or in the locale package and ask the user - install all locales - install the locales from the list ... and write a nice /etc/loacle.gen and run locale-gen in the postinst. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Unix ist ein Konzept! Windows hat garkeins (oder wo sind die Gemeinsamkeiten von Win 3, 9x, und NT?)" -- Lakmal Gunasekara <Gunasekara@t-online.de>
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