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Re: Supporting multiple gettext directories
On Tue, Mar 22, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Roland McGrath [2005-03-21 23:56 -0800]:
> > I don't see why you need additional directories to be search. The "pick my
> > modtime" thing (as opposed to a clear search path) is just not something
> > we're ever going to consider. Really, I can't see the motivation for this
> > at all. It seems like some packaging limitations making you think you want
> > this. Why can't your per-language packages install their files in
> > /usr/share/locale?
>
> Because this would conflict with any software users compile on their
> own (which usually installs into /usr/share/locale/. In a
> packaging-based system (RPM, DEB) you cannot just overwrite arbitrary
> files, because they will get lost with the next package upgrade.
>
> To avoid this undetermined behavior, we introduced the parallel
> hierarchy in /usr/share/locale-langpack.
Software compiled by the user on their own should be installed
in /usr/local, no clash at all.
Thorsten
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