On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Martin Langhoff > <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> This will increase the base uncompressed OS size by about 6mb. >> IMHO, this is tiny compared to the tradeoff at hand. > > I mean tiny compared to the benefit. The tradeoff is completely desirable...
I entirely agree, this is a good use of a small amount of space. I tend to view "stock" OLPC releases as the car you drive when you are shopping. Sure you could drive it off the lot as-is, but if you are really picky about the options packages (e.g. fonts and that 6 MB) you are going to wait for a custom ordered car from the factory (an OS Builder custom build). It is a very good thing if the OLPC stock releases be flexible enough to accommodate additional languages by just dropping in the right language pack. This makes them ideal "technology demonstrators" for assessment (with L10n and on locked XO laptops) before deciding to invest additional effort in a custom build and for many, just adding the language pack will be good enough (with the larger set of glyphs). This reminds me that I need to fiddle with the langpack generating script on Pootle so that we are cranking out 0.96 based langpacks going forward. cjl _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel