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Re: [PATCH] localedata: en_NL: new English in the Netherlands locale [BZ #14085]
- From: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Pander Musubi <pander at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:17:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] localedata: en_NL: new English in the Netherlands locale [BZ #14085]
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> If desktop environments refuse to add the user interface for this, or
> can't arrange for the installation or generation of the required
> locales, this isn't really our fault. If we aggressively increase the
> number of locales, it is likely that only a subset of them make it to
> the user due to installation size concerns.
I do take the argument about size to heart. It is an important issue
on XO laptops that deploy Sugar. We use an image-builder to customize
languages (locales, translations) included because we face such severe
hardware restrictions on storage.
I apologize if my question sounded exasperated, thank you for the
thoughtful response.
cjl