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

Mon Oct 25 15:53:31 CEST 2010

2010/10/25 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+> What is so hard in keeping the Mandriva approach (2 / 3 different cds
+> with language groups)? If communicated sufficiently users will have no
+> problem to chose the correct version for their language. Mandriva
+> could have done that easily by adding a link to the "Download Mandriva
+> Linux ONE" page which shows all 2 / 3 ONE with a listing of the
+> supported languages. Why could we not do it?
+>
+
+Well. for those reasons:
+
+- [Mirror side] Waste of space (see discussions about mirrors; i know
+you' re one of the mirror maintainer, don't you?) We have 6 different
+types of Mandriva One isos. 2 for GNOME, 4 for KDE. 6x700MB=4200MB
+extra space on every mirror.
+
+-  [Content side] Waste of space. Why don't a Mandriva One KDE4 do not
+have printer system or k3b?
+
+- Confusing newbies and even experts minds. I have two times installed
+other one cd images than turkish supported one because of a false
+mouse click.
+
+- Most important: Unsupported language users do not have their
+language files installed for applications other than desktop
+environment related ones. They have to install those apps again even
+those applications come with One Cd or find their corresponding .mo
+files and copy to /usr/share/locale/iso_code/LC_Messages dir.
+
+These are reasons to hard keep Mandriva's approach. I'm not a perl
+programmer; so i don't know if this proposal could be applied, though.
+