[Mageia-discuss] I'd like to start to discuss the possibility of having one language per iso when it comes to full DVD-versions, similar to the Live-versions.

[Kristoffer Grundström]

Kira skrev 2011-09-14 02:55:
> 在 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:51:15 +0800, Kristoffer Grundström 
> <kristoffer.grundstrom1983 at gmail.com>寫道:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> A long time have I wondered why a Swedish man/woman would want to 
>> have more languages on his/her iso to install just Swedish as language.
>>
>> I'm therefor opening a discussion to perhaps solve this little 
>> proposal that I've got.
>>
>> Look at the Live-iso's that we have to offer, they come with 16 
>> languages each.
>>
>> Lets think for a second that a user doesn't want to install a 
>> Live-system & to use a large iso with unnessecary languages is out of 
>> question.
>>
>> How does he/she solve it to install Mageia?
>>
>> My idea is that we transform the full-DVD iso to one-language only, 
>> but more iso's in the end.
>>
>> Like this:
>>
>> mageia-dvd-1-i586.iso in a language-dir under 
>> ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mageia/iso/1/
>>
>> The result is that you shrink the DVD much & you can add other stuff 
>> that doesn't fit in the ordinary DVD's for some reason.......perhaps 
>> add more drivers.
>>
>> I got my idea from looking in the Mozilla-way of showing people how 
>> to find their language-version of Firefox, Thunderbird etc.....
>>
>> Don't get me wrong about this....... I really really really 
>> REEEEEEAALLY love Mageia & I intend to continue using it for all 
>> future, but I just wanted to make a proposition that makes the choice 
>> of iso much easier.
>>
>> Please think about it & discuss the pro's & con's.
>>
> A Major question: So you got about 50~60 or even more different ISO
>
> with only difference in language? I think that would cause too much
>
> mirror resource and not too many mirror would like to offer the services.
Well, all problems can be solved. This is just a cosmetical issue.