Am Donnerstag, den 05.11.2009, 21:50 +0100 schrieb drago01:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Lars Herrmann
<herrmann(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 05.11.2009, 14:56 -0500 schrieb Matthias Clasen:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 11:55 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>
>> > I'm not sure I like the idea, if the idea is 'stop doing a small
>> > functional live image and make our smallest
'complete-out-of-the-box'
>> > image 2GB big'.
>> >
>>
>> The biggest gap in terms of 'complete-out-of-the-box' is OpenOffice.
>> Including that brings us up to around 850M or so.
>
> But isn't this just because of the 3 million language packages
> provided ? Could the size kept small by providing uni-language or
> language-group spins ?
>
> Just a thought
Asking users to install random language packs isn't a good user
experience, and if the only reason for that is "we still don't
acknowledge that we are in the 21st century ...."
The point is that it in fact *is* annoying that a significant chunk of
space goes to totally irrelevant packages. I am typically installing 3
languages on my system and I am sure this represents a tiny fraction of
the user base. North of 90% will never ever use more than one language.
And they will know which one they need prior to downloading ;)
Having a button in the distro to "add a language" is a useful feature
anyway - it's a bit of a pain today if you want to add a language later
and have to find out which packages to add. Same goes for removing.
But I'm not aware of all implications of course ...
Lars