Proposed Development Areas for Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Project

[Paul A Houle]

Alan Cox wrote:

>I hope so. Not because uncommon languages are any different to other
>uncommon packages but because many "uncommon language" areas are those where
>there is a lack of network connectivity and CD is king...
>  
>
    Yeah,  but the size of the CD isn't the only thing.

    There is stuff that I like that comes in with the "everything 
install" that doesn't seem to come in with the other configurations,  
and it's not so clear to me how to select these things individually.  
Even though "en-us" is the only language I select in the menus about 
language support,  I get a lot of language packs that I'll never care 
about,  input method daemons that waste tens of seconds at boot,  etc -- 
about a gigabyte of stuff that I couldn't care less about.

    1 GB on the hard drive may seem like small change in 2005,  but I 
end up installing Linux in small places all the time.

    An option to not install unwanted language packs could be 
particularly useful for people in the third world who need one language 
pack but not a hundred others.