[Mageia-dev] Suggestion-Locales management for One (or Live) Cd releases

Mon Oct 25 11:29:32 CEST 2010

On 25 October 2010 11:16, atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com> wrote:
+> I don't know if this proposal is even mentioned before. It's hard to
+> catch in all these posts. I think the main probem with Mandriva One
+> releases was lack of space. It will still a problem for Mageia Live CD
+> releases. Also, it is very cofusing for Mandriva/Mageia newbies to
+> determine which iso image contains their native language support and
+> i'm sure it brings more effort to maintain so many one cd isos and
+> waste of server/mirror space.
+>
+> I propose to implement an Ubuntu like, install time or in live
+> enviroment language packs installing. How this should work?
+>
+> It is obvious which packages included in Live cd. When creating an iso
+> (draklive?) livecd creation tool strips all locale files except
+> english ones and create seperate packages per locale. These packages,
+> ie. mageia-one-kde4-locale-tr includes all locale files corresponding
+> with included apps/packages in mageia-one-kde4.iso.
+>
+> When user boots with live cd (mageia-one?) a dialog appears and asks
+> which locale he/she would use with live environment. Then if it
+> detects internet connection, downloads this mageia-one specific
+> package (mageia-one-kde4-locale-tr.rpm for Turkish locale in
+> mageia-one-kde4) and adds tr locale /etc/rpm/macros file.
+>
+
+And if there's no active internet connection at installation time?
+
+> So, there will be only one live cd image on mirrors per DE, there will
+> be room for apps in live cd iso, people will not confused for
+> localized isos.
+>
+> What do you think?
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+