On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:36:30PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Steve Langasek [2011-06-09 10:49 -0700]: > > Is there any reason that they have to be in the squashfs image to get that > > effect? I know that's how it's architected today, but would it actually be > > a better experience to have a much smaller squashfs that needs to be > > unpacked, to which the correct language pack is applied on-the-fly as soon > > as we know what language the user has selected?
> At least the user wouldn't notice it, if casper would just DTRT > according to the selected locale. The main drawback that I see is that > it will take quite some RAM (magnitude of 40 MB for a well-translated > language) in the live system. The unpack time is certainly not a > biggie. Is the RAM actually a problem in practice? I probably don't understand the squashfs / aufs architecture well enough; I assumed that the RAM requirements for this were already quite high and that adding a langpack to the overlay would have no major impact. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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