On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:47:55PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> Having an OS support more than one-language on a single medium is fairly 
> common, and the cost of maintaining per-language media is likely to be 
> prohibitive.  That's probably why most vendors have adopted a "Language 
> Pack" approach from what I've seen.

Well, the cost of keeping install image size down is not zero either.

Can the cost of each of the two possible activities be quantified, or
estimated?  If it ever comes to where nothing else can be sacrificed but
the multitude of locales, then we'll know for sure which is cheaper :/

> As such, I think a per-language media approach is not an optimal one.

Has anyone tried?  Perhaps it's easier to automate than you make it
sound.

Nico
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