There is no way to install only needed English translations - language-pack-en installs all translations of english variants (en_GB, en_AU, en_CA, etc)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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language-pack-en-base (Baltix) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
language-pack-en-base (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: language-
There are no way to install only needed English translations (for example just British English) - language-pack-en installs all the translations of English variants (en_GB, en_AU, en_CA, etc).
This is an annoying problem, because too many unneeded locales appear in login prompt (gdm login screen) and users are confused by this - they don't know which English variant to choose from about 15 (en_HK, en_DK, en_IN, en_ZW, en_NZ, en_PH, en_US, en_GB, en_AU, en_SG, en_BW, en_ZA, en_CA, en_IE) ! :(
I think this situation is not correct - almost no one will need English British, English Australian, English South African, English Singapore and all other 10 translations (look above) *at* *the* *same* *time*.
Users will need only one of them at the majority of cases.
Some other translations variants of the same language are already in separate language packs, for example Greek:
language-
language-
I think language-pack-en should be split at least to several language packs according to geographical regions, for example for en_AU (Australian) and en_NZ (New Zealand) translations same language pack could be used, because Australia and New Zealand are neighbor countries.
Changed in language-pack-en-base: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in language-pack-en-base (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
the requested solution in bug 152945 is how this should be done