Re: f8 desktop livecd

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 08:12 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Caolan McNamara <caolanm redhat com> wrote:
> > Most companies have the luxury of a formal or informal big 7 or big 12
> > language policy, and e.g. Dzongkha and Irish can forget about being
> > supported. I guess the ideal solution for something like fedora would be
> > a set of regional cds, though I'm not enthusiastic about actually
> > contributing constructively and doing the work :-)
> 
> Are all the translations broken out into subpackages in sane way
> across the distro? Or is there re-packaging work that needs to be done
> to make it possible to respin regionally?
> Are there any other major roadblocks to someone making a regional cd
> right now using something like revisor?
> 
> I think regional cds are the way to go, but I'm not sure its
> appropriate to change policy in terms of how we handle translations
> for the F8 timescale. I think we could probably
> decide...soon-ish..that we want to go regional for F9, and start
> prioritizing the work to get from here to there.  That would also give
> "us" some time to have solid discussions with the non-EN/US speakers
> about jumping on board to help create the re-spins.

Wouldn't you use the rpm mechanism to install a subset of languages for
that ?