Anaconda needs new locale thinking. (was Re: How important are ISO standards to Fedora?)

[Johann B. Gudmundsson]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Rodd Clarkson <rodd at clarkson.id.au> wrote:
>   
>>  I may use English US on my computer, but I measure using metric, and
>>  format my dates DD-MM-YYYY and my printer uses A4.  Anaconda doesn't get
>>  any of the latter right, and that's just plain wrong.
>>     
>
> Here's a better question. Why are you using US English? Why aren't you
> using another English locale?
>
> I strongly believe that exposing locale customizations to the extent
> necessary to make you happy in anaconda is a really dumb idea.  This
> sort of stuff is a PER USER configuration which is too complicated for
> the installer to need to mess with.
>
> We set a sane default in the installer based on the locale, and then
> the installer gets the hell out of the way.  if you want to make PER
> USER customizations, then figure out a way to expose PER USER
> customizations for the different locale based settings.
>
> -jef
>
>   
+1 Exactly as it should be. :)

Best regards.
                  Johann B.