Re: Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Matthew Garrett <mjg redhat com>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:32:56PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> It shall be noted that many users complained about flags being removed (they
> expect the keyboard layout chooser to use them), and the current solution
> where -flags is optional and not installed by default isn't very helpful
> either (but better than not having them at all).

They may expect the keyboard layout chooser to use them, but you end up 
with awkward situations where geopolitical flags don't usefully 
represent keyboard layouts that are used in multiple countries or 
countries which have multiple keyboard layouts. Even from a purely 
technical perspective, flags rarely accurately depict what you're trying 
to present to the user.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 srcf ucam org