On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:55:48PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > However, I have one concern. Debconf is one of softwares which is > used in early stage of Debian installation. Thus, Debconf should > not depend on many/large packages/data. > > Encoding conversion is a relatively heavy process. I mean, collection > of conversion tables is large.
However the conversion tables are in libc6 package, which is in base, fortunately. > I don't know if iconv (I can use "libtext-iconv-perl" package) or > encoding conversion in gettext work well without "locales" package > or not. Do you have any idea? Either way, locales package _will_ have to be installed together with base packages _if_ user chooses a non-"C" locale. I mean, few applications (possibly also some debconf frontends) work properly in a non-"C" locale without locales package installed, right? Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
