Re: Please do not use en_US.UTF-8 outside the US

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:31:03PM +1000, Roger So wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 08:15, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > The nice thing about LC_PAPER is that it is set either on installation,
> > or as part of the normal setup. I think most people knows how to set the
> > locale, while some, maybe many, would not know that there be a
> > /etc/papersize file.
> 
> Of course, on Debian, there's no need to know about /etc/papersize --
> everything is done through Debconf.  If Debconf is set to use an
> interactive UI, a simple
> 
>       dpkg-reconfigure libpaperg
> 
> will provide a list of paper sizes for users to choose.  But users still
> need to know the package name for the libpaper package.  Perhaps a
> configlet would help...
> 
> Sorry for going way off topic here. ;)

You beat me here :)
To those thinking that remembering the command is not any better than
finding out which file to edit, it should be noted that 1) most people will
just automatically get the dialog at install-time 2) GUIs are in the work so
that the admin can easily reconfigure the parts of the system that he wants
to.

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