Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:23:48PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: >>>> Either direction has to be proven as optimal, but my guess based on >>> Has that been done? > > Of course, perhaps this is the wrong area to focus on anyways (looking > at the analysis that was posted). If there was a way to slim down > GNOME... And does the install image need Thunderbird? (Probably; if > you need to send e-mail while installing and that's the only system that > you have...) > > But given that one of the recommendations is to remove A11Y bits... I'd > rather have per-locale images and keep A11Y in. The analysis did not > break L10N down by language, but it's big enough that a one-language- > per-CD approach would save more space than dropping A11Y. OTOH, blind > people could just do text installs over a serial line with text-to- > speech on the other end, so perhaps large parts of A11Y could reasonably > be dropped. >
If you review the archives of the discussion back in August, a11y offered quite a bit of feedback and indicated this was acceptable. >> Don't know. I'm just pointing out the observation that many software >> vendors have taken the language pack approach instead. > > What would it take to support multiple one-language install CD images? > > My guess is that the first time setting up the build system support for > it would not be cheap, but it'd be cheap to maintain that going forward. > > Do we have reason to think that users might find this unacceptable? > > Are there regulations that this would violate? (Not likely; I'd think > that dropping A11Y would be more likely to violate regulations/laws, > than a one-language install CDs, as long as users had a simple way to > get install CD images in the languages that they need.) > We will be re-examining our media strategy after the November release and considering a variety of options, but we are sticking with the current one for now. The number of media images that your suggested scheme would require would be unmanageable without architecture changes. Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
