On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:44:21AM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> Everything Nigel just wrote plus one thing.
>
> If it comes down to it, we could always require a --locale setting and
> refuse to initdb without it. That way, whether it's in an RPM or from
> source, somebody somewhere along the line has to choose something.
Yeah, that way the RPM guys would put the --locale taking the locale
from the environment and you're back to ground zero.
There's no point in forcing things down the throat of users using this
kind of mechanisms, because someone is going to automate the thing
along the way. What is needed is a way to make the user aware of his
system's configuration.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)