There have been a number of discussions on these lists about the
benefits of the 'new' way of only installing what is required versus the
'old' way of installing everything.
In light of the consensus (at least among the development team) that the
'new' way is better, why is there no way of specifying a minimum number
of languages which have support installed by default?
I would guess that English plus one other language would satisfy the
requirements of the vast majority of users, so I would like to suggest
that as well as the keyboard selection and primary language selection at
install time there is another option to install none (or a limited
number) of the additional languages.
Similarly, there needs to be provision in AI to do the same thing.
There doesn't appear to be any way to easily remove all the language
modules you don't want after installation, other than trolling through
several hundred packages and getting the right ones by trial and error.
If only installing what you want and need is the way forward, then it
would seem to be a mandatory requirement to be able to install a minimal
set of languages.
Surely there is a better way than having dozens of unwanted packages
installed and updated on a regular basis.
Cheers
Frank
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