Hi, Dave, I didn't find any information about localization packages installation, do you have any plan to cover it later?
The current situation is, unless you choose customize install and check some or all GEOs one by one, only C locale plus the locales of one of the 9 big rules languages (if you manually choose that language instead of the default English as the installation language) will be installed. We have got more and more questions about how to add more non English locales to an English only OS and also a lot of complains or even escalations, and I think it's the time to revise the localization packages install strategy. Localization packages include two different sets of packages: 1. Locale enabling packages for locale shared objects, fonts, input methods, iconv modules, X11 modules, etc. 2. Pure translation packages for the translations of messages in ON, Gnome, Firefox, Thunderbird, Realplayer, etc. The following are some options of the localization packages installation: 1. Current solution, only C locale will be installed unless you choose one of the big rules language as the installation language or manually check GEOs from customized install. 2. Install all locales by default, inform customers to deselect some only if the disk space is limited 3. Separate locale enabling packages from pure translation packages and install all locale enabling packages by default, and install other translation packages by manually selection during installation, but this should be clearly explained to customers before they choose "Default Install" or "Customize Install". 4. Provide downloadable, easily installable and removable locale patches or packages so that customers can add/remove locales easily. Most Linux distros are using the 2nd option, but I prefer the 3rd and also the 4th :-) Thanks, Brian Dave Miner wrote: > Greetings, Installation community members! > > I've just posted for discussion a document that I've been working on > for the past couple of months: a draft strategy for Solaris > installation. > > The document discusses the current state of Solaris installation in > relation to customer requirements, and proposes a set of features and > projects designed to address the requirements. > > Please understand that this is a proposal; while it's had some > preliminary review by a small number of people in Solaris > engineering, this is the first time it's been widely disseminated and > thus I expect to receive, and incorporate, a great deal of feedback > which will evolve it from this point. > > I would appreciate review comments by April 14. I encourage posting > comments to this list, but private comments are of course equally > acceptable. > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/install_strategy.pdf > > >
