Hi On 2022/09/29 08:52, Green wrote:
Calamares installer should act properly to NOT install unneeded large amounts of locales by default; on the contrary other distribution's installer like in Fedora or MX Linux behave quite properly.
I agree, this is among a few other issues, my #1 issue with Calamares on our live media right now. For what it's worth, debian-installer exhibits the same behaviour on our live media.
If this problem is not easily solved, I would like to propose to replace the present calamares with Gazelle-installer developed by MX dev, instead. It seems that Gazelle-installer is quite a nice installer without such a problem.
I took a look at it again, it solves /some/ of Calamares's problems, but it also brings in new ones. I think it's fine (and even great) if someone packages gazelle-installer for Debian, but since we're edging closer and closer to freeze date, I don't think we're likely to switch to it for Bookworm. By Trixie, I hope to have a much better long-term solution in place.
-Jonathan