Andreas Tille wrote:
> When reading tasksel-2.78/tasks/README I stumbled upon:
>
> Care should be taken when adding new tasks to ensure that the new task is
> suitably generic -- it should be something of value to a large number (at
> least 25%) of our users;
>
> and than looking at the tasks which are supporting more than 10 different
> languages I can plainly assume that the criterion "at least 25% of our
> users") does definitely not fit - without discriminating any specific
> language it is not realistic to assume that amharic, arabic, basque,
> belarusian, bengali, bosnian, brazilian-portuguese
It is much more likely that non_brazilian-portuguese doesn't meet the
criteria, given that the population of Brazil is almost all of the world's
portuguese-speaking population[1]. Not to mention that portuguese is the 6th
most popular language in the world, which would probably make brazilian-
portuguese the 6th most spoken language, over German, Dutch, French and many
others. Note that Arabic and Bengali are also over those other languages[2].
Unfortunately, none of the languages cover 25% of the worlds population,
which would make none of the language tasks appropriate. Unless, of course,
one takes into account the fact that debian is run by a German cabal, which
would possibly make it match the 25% :p.
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_distribution_of_Portuguese[2]
http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/10languages.htm--
Felipe Sateler
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