On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 20:53 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 02:40:50 +0100, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > no but the lang packs for the spellchecker are separate srpms. So > > > splitting off the non-major languages would be a savings. > > > > People will read this as "the typical US" arrogance, ignorance and > > nationalism. > > Well, tell them that the Russian agrees with the American. They can > blame the Russians for a change. It seems increasingly popular these > days anyway. :) I realize, to have entered dangerous political grounds ... IMO, if you remove one language you must remove all and make all languages optional (Including English) and reduce Fedora Core to "C". > Most countries have their own local distros that commonly re-roll > Fedora to reflect their regional needs, so I don't think making > spellcheck dictionaries for minor languages a download-only thing for > vanilla Fedora is a bad idea (let's say minor == fewer than a hundred > million speakers). 100 mill. speaker? This would exclude large groups and major languages. You should be aware that i18n for "less spread" languages makes distributions attractive to "niches". Ralf
