Re: glibc in Fedora rawhide now split by langpacks.

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 08:56:27AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 02/26/2016 08:39 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> > Dne 26.2.2016 v 11:20 Carlos O'Donell napsal(a):
> >> No languages are available by default, we did this because otherwise
> >> you keep carrying forward locales that you can't remove.
> > 
> > For this reasons we have weak dependencies. I guess that:
> >   Recommends: glibc-all-langpacks
> > can do the work (install or by default, can be safely removed). Or
> >   Suggests: glibc-all-langpacks
> > so it is not installed by default, but users can get the information that it can enhance the usability of glibc.
> > 
> 
> 
> Yeah, I think the best approach would be to have all the langpacks offer a
> virtual Provides: glibc-langpack and have the main package Requires:
> glibc-langpack and Suggests: glibc-all-langpacks. The net result would be that
> unless a specific langpack was chosen, you'd end up with all of them to satisfy
> the requirement. (This would also unbreak the upgrades without needing a patch
> to dnf system-upgrade)

That would be a much better solution. dnf-system-upgrade so far didn't
have any special handling for specific packages (except for a check
that the kernel is in the upgrade transaction) and there no mechanism
like this is implemented.

Zbyszek
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