Re: glibc in Fedora rawhide now split by langpacks.

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On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 23:31, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 28, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Lars Seipel <lars.seipel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 08:56:27AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > This would force the installation of at least one langpack, no?  The C,
> > POSIX and *C.UTF-8* locales are builtin, so for many systems it is very
> > reasonable to run without any language pack installed.
> 
> Yeah, the workaround we're doing there is to have a glibc-minimal-langpacks
> subpackage that satisfies the requirement but contains no actual files.
> It's a bit of a hack, but not a particularly awful one. 

Why a subpackage? Shouldn't the main glibc package (or glibc-common)
simply provide the C, C.UTF-8 and POSIX langpacks?

Regards,
Dominik
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