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)

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Binary package hint: language-pack-en-base

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-pack-el-base (translations for language Greek, Modern)
language-pack-grc-base (translations for language Greek, Ancient)

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.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

the requested solution in bug 152945 is how this should be done