[Request] Language support packages not installed by default
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 22:30:46 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:00 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Beartooth wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > [....]
> >> It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support
> >> right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use. An installed
> >> system only needs the languages that you actually need.
> >
> > Good point! All the more reason not to include umpteen bazillion
> > of them as defaults anywhere else.
>
> Would you communicate that to the Mozilla gang as well? :-)
>
> Having all those ruddy language packs reinstalled every time Firefox or
> Thunderbird gets updated is OK on my desktops with drives >500GB, but
> they suck up too much space on my Aspire One. I delete them just to
> have them reappear on every bloody update. Grrrr!
I don't mind (much) having them there. What I do mind is having to go
through them one by one to disable them. The UI for this is
disfunctional.
poc
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