Internet Packages, was: i18n in Ubuntu

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:32:01AM -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> Reading about the problems in having the i18n thread it strikes me
> that some of these problems might be solved by being able to mark
> packages for installation the next time your online (if it's not
> already possible)
> 
> Parts:
> 1) That there be a reliable way to detect an online state, I've been
> talking to the NetworkManager developers about this very idea.
> 2) That packages that fail to download can be marked in some way so
> that they install through the update manager if online.
> 3) In the case of the i18n, a message could be displayed to let the
> user know they have no internet connection, that the packages will be
> installed later for their language or they can try again (button) and
> that message in as many languages as possible on the cd.
> 
> Even if these ideas are wrong for the specific i18n problem I see
> great value in having an online state that can warn users in the
> update manager that they need to be online to download updates. So far
> we have errors and problems being reported back in text format from
> stdout of apt (although I've head work is on this too)

Language-selector tries to do the right thing in this case already, or am I
misunderstanding?  What specific problem are you interested in solving?

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 - mdz