Un-asked-for-language support

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 25 15:17:28 UTC 2009


On 11/25/2009 08:10 PM, Karel Volný wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 of November 2009 14:33:45 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> So you want the default selection to be English only. I think
>>  350 MB of disk space isn't worth the hassle for majority of
>>  Fedora users (yes, the majority is not English) but that's
>>  just me. I will stop here.
> 
> ahem, but *the majority* does not need support for *all* the 
> languages

Sure but then you are back again to picking only English by default
because you can't guess which languages are needed by which users and I
don't think it is a good choice. Face it, packages are always going to
contain locale information which you don't need.

Rahul




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