[indiana-discuss] CD Space analysis and recommendations

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:42:16PM -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> As an example, we include zh_CN and zn_TW locales in the os0805
> LiveCD.  Has that helped us gain any new users?  I don't think so.

That's likely just politics.

> But my more serious concern is that the principal OpenSolaris LiveCD
> managers, as expected, don't seem to have any idea about each
> individual locale.  This can be a very dangerous thing.

Oh stop.  We live in a world where we all have to specialize to some
degree.  We have G11N experts, and they advise the OpenSolaris team.
What's wrong with that?

> We may want to consider the option of removing the localization stuffs
> from the LiveCD, but also making sure to leave enough empty space so
> that local developers/entrepreneurs can easily IPS language specific
> stuff and create their ISO's without having to remove any of the
> existing stuff.

But with the repository model there should be less need to add random
stuff to install CDs.

Nico
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