2009/2/3 Surfaz Gemon Meme <surfa...@gmail.com>: > Hi! I have some doubts > > * Why Ubuntu install English support by default, although I chose > Spanish support? > > I don't want waste 130~ mb space of my hard disk. > > It strikes me that during the installation of Ubuntu is uninstalled > many languages (first, why install many languages? I only want one!!), > but no English. > > In a few words, I think these packages are not required in any > non-English installation: > > " aspell-en gimp-help-en hunspell-en-us language-pack-en > language-pack-en-base language-pack-gnome-en > language-pack-gnome-en-base language-support-en > language-support-translations-en language-support-writing-en > myspell-en-au myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za openoffice.org-help-en-gb > openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us > openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za > openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us > thunderbird-locale-en-gb wamerican wbritish " > > In addition of English support, there are other things that I want to comment > > * Why Ubuntu install thunderbird support by default (installing > Spanish support) althougt I no use thunderbird... and thunderbird is > no installed by default... O_o > > * If it were the case I use thunderbird, why install Ubuntu packages > package thunderbird-locale-es-ar and thunderbird-locale-es-es? > > I say that Depends field of "language-support-translations-es" > meta-package should be: > > "Depends: openoffice.org-help-es, openoffice.org-l10n-es, > thunderbird-locale-es-ar | thunderbird-locale-es-es, gimp-help-es" > > instead of: > > "Depends: openoffice.org-help-es, openoffice.org-l10n-es, > thunderbird-locale-es-ar, thunderbird-locale-es-es, gimp-help-es" > > In this way at least I could uninstall "thunderbird-locale-es-ar" > without uninstall "language-support-translations-es" package. > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > > Hello,
That's an intriguing questions. It is of course not necessary to install a language you don't use. However, English is being used as the fall-back language in case something hasn't been fully translated. So I think it would be reasonable to leave at least a part of the English language packs at the system. If all help files and spell checkers are needed is another thing. If I recall it correctly there has done some work on allowing the user to select his preferred fall back language. This would especially be useful for people using a local language like Frisian that isn't fully translated; they would be able to select Dutch as the fall-back language. In that case you could say it wouldn't be necessary to keep the English language packs. However, what if the system isn't fully translated in the fall-back language either? That could be solved by only allowing completed languages to be selected as fall-back, but I'm not sure if that would be well received and I also think that it isn't a perfect solution. Regards, -- Sense Hofstede <http://www.qense.nl/> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss