[indiana-discuss] CD Space analysis and recommendations

[Shawn Walker]

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