[Request] Language support packages not installed by default

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Wed Apr 8 21:00:01 UTC 2009


Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:27:45 +0930, Tim wrote:
> 	[....]
>> It's really only the installer that needs to have multi-lingual support
>> right from the get-go, to ask you what languages to use.  An installed
>> system only needs the languages that you actually need.
> 
> 	Good point! All the more reason not to include umpteen bazillion 
> of them as defaults anywhere else.

Would you communicate that to the Mozilla gang as well? :-)

Having all those ruddy language packs reinstalled every time Firefox or
Thunderbird gets updated is OK on my desktops with drives >500GB, but
they suck up too much space on my Aspire One.  I delete them just to
have them reappear on every bloody update.  Grrrr!
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