2010/10/25 atilla ontas <[email protected]>: > > Well. for those reasons: > > - [Mirror side] Waste of space (see discussions about mirrors; i know > you' re one of the mirror maintainer, don't you?) We have 6 different > types of Mandriva One isos. 2 for GNOME, 4 for KDE. 6x700MB=4200MB > extra space on every mirror.
That's around 5% of the space needed for one version of Mageia. Does this really count on a mirror? > - [Content side] Waste of space. Why don't a Mandriva One KDE4 do not > have printer system or k3b? Well, this is a discussion which leads nowhere. You can easily argue that a live cd does not need this or that application. The system-config-printer issue has been discussed many times, it is not absent because of too many locale files. > - Confusing newbies and even experts minds. I have two times installed > other one cd images than turkish supported one because of a false > mouse click. You can apply the "wrong mouse click" error to all applications in computer universe. I don't think a user is so dumb that he can't select the correct choice of one among 2 or three! I come to the download page, I see "Download ONE" (as example), Next step: Each language group listing all included languages. user clicks on his language, the download of the correct ISO starts. Too confusing? > - Most important: Unsupported language users do not have their > language files installed for applications other than desktop > environment related ones. They have to install those apps again even > those applications come with One Cd or find their corresponding .mo > files and copy to /usr/share/locale/iso_code/LC_Messages dir. Yes, a reply to those very rare cases was already given. -- wobo
