> With regards to the answer you got below ... I am surprised that en-gb > is considered the 'default' when american-english is also impossible > to get rid of. American is the only language that is complete in any > release whereas en-bg or en(uk) always lacks many thousands of > strings! Much as i hate to admit it - i think american should be the > default language.
If I understand correctly, you talk about why the British English and not American English... Sorry, but I'm not talking about default language. I am talking about unnecessary lang packages. Firts, I don't understand why "language-support-translations-XX" install a package(s) "thunderbird-locale-xx-XX" when Ubuntu don't install thunderbird mail client by default... Ubuntu uses evolution as mail client, non? Second, I don't understan why Ubuntu keep installed English support packages when I chose other language. This causes: - Wasted space (~130 MB) - Time lost to uninstall I refer to these packages: 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 aspell-en gimp-help-en hunspell-en-us wamerican wbritish It is curious, UK and U.S English.. Also, it has even dialects of English: myspell-en-au (English australian) or myspell-en-za (English southafrican)... O_o Why a Ubuntu user from Argentina, France or any other no-English country will want to have these packages installed by default? -- 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
