Redundant question in the installer
Bug #24066 reported by
Björn Lindqvist
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| archive-copier (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Colin Watson | ||
Bug Description
In a page in the Ubuntu installer, it asks you something like "Not all language
packages for your language could be installed, do you want to look for them on
the internet?" I think it would be much saner if the installer FIRST tried to
locate language packages on the web repositories, and if that fails alert the
user. Because I believe 99% of all people installing Ubuntu answers yes on that
question.
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
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I'm afraid I disagree. The reason that question is there is that, before it was
added, doing two simultaneous installations could easily swamp an ADSL line
because both would try to download the large language-support-* packages and
take ages. The question was added because some people (such as those on dial-up)
might well not want to download these large packages straight away.