Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:47:55PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: >> Having an OS support more than one-language on a single medium is fairly >> common, and the cost of maintaining per-language media is likely to be >> prohibitive. That's probably why most vendors have adopted a "Language >> Pack" approach from what I've seen. > > Well, the cost of keeping install image size down is not zero either. > > Can the cost of each of the two possible activities be quantified, or > estimated? If it ever comes to where nothing else can be sacrificed but > the multitude of locales, then we'll know for sure which is cheaper :/
Either direction has to be proven as optimal, but my guess based on observation is that it has proven for others to be more cost-effective to use language packs instead of per-language media approaches. >> As such, I think a per-language media approach is not an optimal one. > > Has anyone tried? Perhaps it's easier to automate than you make it > sound. Even if it could be automated, there is still manual testing involved, management of multiple images, additional resources and bandwidth required, etc. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
