I don't see any problem with this question/screen would be set as medium priority (which is the default) and not as high.
The bottom line - let people some kind of option to select each of the l10n tasks. Just don't decide for them automatically.
Agreed?
Per Olofsson wrote:
Lior Kaplan:
1. Using tasksel simplifies the installation of many packages through tasks... It seems that you don't want to let the users select their tasks by them self (except for several task as desktop and a few servers). Please let people the option to choose which i18n & l10n packages they want.
I do want to let people do what they want, but that's not the point. The point is that we want to minimise the number of questions asked during a default installation, to simplify it and make it less confusing for the majority of users. There could of course be a medium-priority screen in tasksel which asked about extra language tasks to install.
Can't you imagine someone wishes to install both German and Arabic fonts or Turkish with northern fonts? And I don't even mention countries which have dual official languages (Israel has both Hebrew and Arabic).
I could imagine people wanting to do a lot of things which can't be done with tasksel.
2. "Shouldn't a normal Debian user be able to use at least one package installation tool?" If the answer is yes, whey do you use tasksel to install a desktop or a web server? Can't you do that with apt-get?
Well, yes, but these are just a few tasks, there's a lot of language tasks.
3. Also - I which to have a single language support, but I don't want to use that language as the interface. Example: I work with English interface (locale: en_US.UTF-8) but had to install the packages for Hebrew support (fonts and some common packages).
That is we (=Hebrew speakers) wished for the Hebrew task, so people could install all the packages related to Hebrew. But according to your way of selecting the tasks, I must work with he_IL.UTF8 for get that task installed.
I think what we need to ask ourselves is how many people would benefit from this. If only a tiny fraction of the userbase would need to select different language tasks, then it should probably not be a high-priority question. If it would be useful to a significant proportion (25% according to tasksel's tasks/README), then it could be made a high-priority question.
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