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

Mon Oct 25 16:13:28 CEST 2010

2010/10/25 atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com>:
+>
+> 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.
+
+That's around 5% of the space needed for one version of Mageia. Does
+this really count on a mirror?
+
+> -  [Content side] Waste of space. Why don't a Mandriva One KDE4 do not
+> have printer system or k3b?
+
+Well, this is a discussion which leads nowhere. You can easily argue
+that a live cd does not need this or that application. The
+system-config-printer issue has been discussed many times, it is not
+absent because of too many locale files.
+
+> - 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.
+
+You can apply the "wrong mouse click" error to all applications in
+computer universe. I don't think a user is so dumb that he can't
+select the correct choice of one among 2 or three! I come to the
+download page, I see "Download ONE" (as example), Next step: Each
+language group listing all included languages. user clicks on his
+language, the download of the correct ISO starts.
+Too confusing?
+
+> - 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.
+
+Yes, a reply to those very rare cases was already given.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+