[Debian-in-workers] Re: Including ttf-indic-fonts in first cd

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 08:41:55PM +0530, Praveen A wrote:
>2007/3/26, Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl>:
>>Note however that that does not guarantee that the font package will be
>>included on the first CD as CDs are relatively small and there are a lot
>>of packages that have a lot higher priority for getting on the first CD
>>than language-specific packages. There are more languages that have this
>>issue.
>>
>>It will certainly be included on the first DVD and will also be installed
>>if you use both a CD and a network mirror during installation.
>>
>>And there is of course also the option of creating a custom CD image for
>>your language which does have the packages for Malayam on the first CD.
>
>Is it possible to have an official cd with all the
>language/language-desktop tasks included for the languages supported
>by the installer (similar to the ones for kde and xfce)? We could call
>this -l10n. It would solve this issue for quite a few languages and it
>would every language team from maintaining a custom cd for its
>language.
>
>Does it sounds good? Is it difficult to implement before etch release?

How big are all the language tasks?

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