[Mageia-dev] Suggestion-Locales management for One (or Live) Cd releases

[atilla ontas]

2010/10/25 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>:
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> And if there's no active internet connection at installation time?
> Ahmad Samir
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Well, they will use live environment in english after installation and
install corresponding package like normal package installation. That's
all. The situation in my proposal with no internet is same as the
locales do not have supported in live cd releases. i.e. Azerbaijani.
If someone needs full locale or packages support it already have to
install from Free dvd release. Don't they?

2010/10/25 Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de>:
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: mageia-dev-bounces at mageia.org [mailto:mageia-dev-bounces at mageia.org] Im Auftrag von atilla ontas
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>> I propose to implement an Ubuntu like, install time or in live
>> enviroment language packs installing. How this should work?
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>> What do you think?
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> As I installed Ubuntu last weekend myself, I want to mention my POV to that mechanism.
> It's hard for those who doesn't want or can't connect to the internet during installation, but for those may the One be the wrong installation method.
> The bigger problem in the current state of the ubuntu installation process is, that you have to enter the passphrase for a wireless connection with the wrong keyboard layout. After that you where prompted to enter a key for the gnome keyring and it wasn't clear at that time which keyboard layout is used. Also in the end of the installation where you have to enter a password for the user.
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> So, if Mageia wants to offer an similar method, we need to take care of that.
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> Regards,
> Thorsten
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>

Wireless connections are mostly issues in free dvd releases too.
People have to enable non-free repository and install wireless drivers
on most cases. Also, misconfiguration of keyboard layout is a serious
problem than having native language support, you must find right key
kombination to setup and use root password. So, i can' t agree with
this issue, it is not related just with my proposal but with entire
system.

I think my proposal have much more pros than cons.