[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 518395] please do not install bogus m17n by default

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--- Comment #8 from Karel Volný <kvolny at redhat.com>  2009-08-24 04:45:51 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> To be fair... if you're putting it on a phone or an OLPC, you're not using
> the default install.  

true ... I just wanted to say that relying on the fact that no one wants to run
stock Fedora on anything worse than at most two years old middle class
office/multimedia desktop PC is a bit unfortunate

if it was for some useful feature, ok, let's move on - but if it's just to
store bits that are never used for their purpose, they just cause unnecessary
load, then it seems to me a bit weird

imagine that you have a car and in that car, instead of using that car's cargo
space for what do you want you just store various things that you have no use
for but that are used somewhere around the world ... after a few years you find
that you feel a bit claustrophobic and you buy a bigger car and you find that
it is alredy preloaded with all those things, and you don't get so much free
space as it would seem just by comparing the cars' cargo space sizes ... and
you find that you cannot buy a small "city" car, 'cause you wouldn't fit the
things you like to use in it as they are bound hard to those things you don't
want to use

this sounds quite strange - so, why do people consider this OK for computers?

I know the analogy is not perfect - you can argue that you can use old software
with the old hardware, but then you wouldn't get e.g. security updates that are
still needed for the whole hardware lifetime (ok, extend the analogy - like the
oil type you need to use in your car would not be available any longer)

and you can argue that there are other distros than Fedora, but ... can you
name one *major general purpose* distro that would not be such resource hungry?
- I really don't want to use some "hey guys let's try to fit the software I use
on a bussiness card size dvd" projects, that are really hard to bend to my
needs and that I have no guarantee they will not cease to exist tomorrow

sorry for this longer post, it's bugzilla here, not a discussion board ...
well, it's Monday morning here in CEST and it takes some time to get into the
mood for some real work :-)

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