2011/9/14 Kristoffer Grundström <[email protected]>: > Hi! > > A long time have I wondered why a Swedish man/woman would want to have more > languages on his/her iso to install just Swedish as language. > > I'm therefor opening a discussion to perhaps solve this little proposal that > I've got. > > Look at the Live-iso's that we have to offer, they come with 16 languages > each. > > Lets think for a second that a user doesn't want to install a Live-system & > to use a large iso with unnessecary languages is out of question. > > How does he/she solve it to install Mageia? > > My idea is that we transform the full-DVD iso to one-language only, but more > iso's in the end. > > Like this: > > mageia-dvd-1-i586.iso in a language-dir under > ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mageia/iso/1/ > > The result is that you shrink the DVD much & you can add other stuff that > doesn't fit in the ordinary DVD's for some reason.......perhaps add more > drivers. > > I got my idea from looking in the Mozilla-way of showing people how to find > their language-version of Firefox, Thunderbird etc..... > > Don't get me wrong about this....... I really really really REEEEEEAALLY > love Mageia & I intend to continue using it for all future, but I just > wanted to make a proposition that makes the choice of iso much easier. > > Please think about it & discuss the pro's & con's. >
I can only agree to the various points all the other posters already wrote. As one of the mirror maintainers I can assure you, I'd ask Mageia what they smoked lately if they came around with such a release. As one of the iso testers before release I would ask how many people you can round-up to do the final testing of all those isos. Have you asked those who compile the isos and upload them about how much extra work this would mean? Although I understand the reason for such an idea I also understand that it is a no-go for various reasons. -- wobo
