Quoting Andrew Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have no idea why debian wnats us to choose a country during > installation?
Sorry to say and write this, but where were you when this was discussed *months* ago? Steve Langasek pretty well explained why the country choice emerged : because this gives a good guess about several other answers in the installer. So, I won't argue again about this because I know this saves a lot of user interaction screens during Debian installation. (and there is still log of work to do for using this choice as a default for some other settings in several packages) Initially, a sort of country choosing system was in languagechooser...and, indeed, it is still there for the most common countries when some languages have several countries where they are officially spoken. However, as we kept adding languages to d-i, it became evident that we couldn't add more and more entries to the languagechooser screen (imagine how many entry we would need for Spanish.....just look at /usr/share/locale/SUPPORTED some day) Why the hell would we then have some countries having the chance of being mentioned and some others not? Yes, this was a politically correct choice, also. And, yes, this lead to the current taiwanese issue we're trying to solve. But, please, don't ask the d-i team to drop design choice who were made in public discussions and opened group. This is definitely too late. And certainly not because we currently have an issue with one country. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
