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Re: [PATCH] locale: Make the file name of the locale archive configurable
- From: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud at opteya dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:35:32 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] locale: Make the file name of the locale archive configurable
- References: <87k1e131uq.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
Hi,
Le mardi 04 juin 2019 à 15:40 +0200, Florian Weimer a écrit :
> This improves support for parallel installation and upgrade scenarios
> involving changes to the locale archive format or the data stored in
> it.
>
This could hurt exchanging statically linked programs between Linux
distributions: I think of this scenario where one program is built on
Debian and it won't be able to find the locale archive on Fedora.
I'm not afraid of this kind of breakage when it comes to statically
linked program (because of gconv, nss, and such), but it would require
some warning in the documentation.
Perhaps a fallback to the current default path could be implemented
along this change ?
Regards.
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Yann Droneaud
OPTEYA