Hey Gunnar,
After reorganizing the seeds for ubuntu desktop and see which strategy
we are going to take for the new installer (negative layered langpacks,
I can expand on this a little bit later), I think we have a robust story
to avoid the unsync we have between language-selector and the
On 2018-10-22 11:19, Didier Roche wrote:> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Please note that the language-options script serves the purpose of
>> providing a list of languages only, i.e. it let's the user select
>> the display language. That should be distinguished from selecting
>> the locale for
Yeah, sorry that we had different terms for the same things :) Ok, I
understand now as well. I'm trying to look at this whole thing globally
and not from the technical split (which is a little bit artificial) that
we did.
> Please note that the language-options script serves the purpose of
On 2018-10-17 08:14, Didier Roche wrote:
> When you are telling that you select French, or English, and so, all
> dialects should be installed for them, why do we have that separation
> in different packages though? Shouldn't we only have one "English",
> "French", … package?
I now understand
When you are telling that you select French, or English, and so, all
dialects should be installed for them, why do we have that separation in
different packages though? Shouldn't we only have one "English",
"French", … package?
I don't understand the difference between:
$ locale -a | grep ^fr
I think we need to distinguish between what's installed and what the
language-options script outputs.
Installing a language means that a set of language pack packages are
installed. (Let's disregard the language support packages for now.)
So when installing French, the French langpacks are
I think we should answer some questions first in term of fundamentals.
1.
For instance, if I install fr_FR, I don't expect to have fr_CA installed (and
it's not the case here), nor fr.
Why would that be different for English? I thinks en_US should only install
en_US + the common (shared)
Hey Didier,
On 2018-10-15 11:13, Didier Roche wrote:
> 1. if you select en_GB, en_US is selected instead
Yes, if you do a British install, the installer keeps the en_US language
support instead. It's bug #173.
> 2. if you select fr_FR, fr_FR + en_US is selected
Well, yes. English is always
