Bug#1089127: gnome-core: Install locales-all by default

[Lee Garrett]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 16:48:03 -0500 =?UTF-8?Q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?= 
<jeremy.bicha at canonical.com> wrote:
 > [...]
> Therefore, my proposal is that we have gnome-core add Recommends:
> locales-all . That would allow users to uninstall it if they really
> want to. apt tells me that locales-all has a download size of 11 MB
> and an installed size of 241 MB. I think if Debian were particularly
> concerned about the space that translations take up, Debian could
> implement something like the language packs that Ubuntu uses. I don't
> think we are particularly concerned about the size of the default
> GNOME desktop in Debian right now.
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha
Hi Jeremy,

a user bumped into the same issue in #debian IRC as you described, and I think 
this would be a good solution. The average user doesn't care so much about a few 
hundred MB if that means that the language selector works.

Greets,
Lee