[indiana-discuss] CD Space analysis and recommendations

[Shawn Walker]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 05:40:12PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> 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 
> 
> Has that been done?

Don't know.  I'm just pointing out the observation that many software 
vendors have taken the language pack approach instead.

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Shawn Walker