Quoting Helmut Wollmersdorfer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > That's the point. > Assuming much seems to be convenient for mainstream, but gets > inconvenient in case of special needs. > E.g. I want to have English as language for installation, > administration, messages and man, as this has advantages to find similar > problems or describe them in newsgroups, forums and bug trackers. > Keyboard is German, location is Austria (but can change in case of a > notebook), encoding should be UTF-8.
Well, I do not see any problem here..:-) All this is technically possible with the current d-i...except defaulting to a UTF-8 environment (that will be possible as soon as localechooser replaces lang+countrychooser) I do not agree about only using English for system administration but this is a personal feeling which is for sure not enforced anywhere in d-i.... > > Developers should always keep in mind, that different users can exist on > one system, that one user can have different roles, wants to use more > than one language at the same time etc. I absolutely don't know where you got the idea that all this is not possible..:-) For sure, the default install will not allow you to configure the locales package for several locales simultaneously. For this, you need to either use the expert install...or "dpkg-reconfigure locales" when the installation is over. > Thus locales should always be choosable and reconfigurable in a > convenient way without reading tons of manuals. Assuming > interdependencies, and using inheritance to get senseful defaults is > o.k. But the user should always have the chance to override the > defaults, or to change to expert level or even deeper expert levels. This is exactly how d-i behaves since the beginning..:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
