[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
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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