On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:12:17AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Adam Majer wrote: > > Indeed. The word "country" needs to be replaced by "locale" or > > similar. > > That's a good choice, actually, especially given that the technical > name for the thing which this selection is used for is indeed > "locale". Despite the "language_country" form of locales (which was > misguided in the first place and misimplemented in the second place),
If that needs to be solved, it's well out of the scope of d-i. > effectively the only thing the "country" is used for is picking the > locale code. That is not true. It's used to produce a reasonable default choice of mirror on businesscard and netinst images, and similarly in the process of setting up /etc/apt/sources.list after the first reboot. It could also be used to produce a reasonable default choice of timezone, although I'm not sure if it actually is at the moment. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
