Bill Nottingham wrote:
You could say that about many countries. In any case, even if 1/10 of
one
percent of those people are viable users... that still dwarfs the affected
packager base by many orders of magnitude.
But not the affected user base if you remove useful apps like geography
learning apps because they show Taiwan as a country complete with flag.
(And yes, at least one such app exists.)
Given that related operating systems with *ONLY* these changes are
allowed, it's a fair assumption to make.
But what about the many distros which do not do these changes? Kubuntu ships
the Taiwanese flag, see:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/all/kdebase-runtime-data-common/filelist
Yet they even have a .org.cn site:
http://www.kubuntu.org.cn/ which appears
to be hosted inside mainland China.
Proliferation of spins and maintenance for specific geographies is
a waste of space and effort, if it can be avoided. That's why we
have languages included on the Desktop spin, instead of 15 different
localized ones.
That's how it works for GNOME, but KDE *needs* localized spins anyway as
there's no way to fit all the huge kde-l10n-* packages on a CD. The KDE
spin does *NOT* include any translations.
Kevin Kofler