[Novalug] How to gut &^*%$& Firefox??

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi@gmail.com
Sun Oct 11 03:18:51 EDT 2009


On Sunday 11 October 2009 3:04:44 am James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> Bryan J Smith wrote:
> > That there's really _never_ a need to worry about the small size that
> > locale increases a distro.  As I mentioned in another post, I don't
> > think it even equals GLibC on its own.
> 
> well, of course no, because they put all the wee beasties *in* glibc,
> which i believe was also a bad choice.
> 
> over half of red hat's sales are non-u.s.? that doesn't bode well for
> linux adoption here, unless people are using centos and fedora instead.
> 
> one distribution (to rule them all?) is fine ... just do a better option
> at making all that international stuff easy to strip out ... and PLEASE
> make Posix/C a locale choice too!

Why do you want POSIX/C, and not specifically en_US?  I mean, what if it was 
written by a Japanese programmer?

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Mackenzie Morgan
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