Re: Replacing glibc langpacks

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



* Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:

> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 09:13:50PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Tomasz Kłoczko:
>> 
>> > On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 10:41, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> I'm investigating whether it makes sense to switch to a scheme where the
>> >> glibc locale data is built from source, during package installation,
>> >> based on the langpack configuration system.  This is similar to what
>> >> Debian does.
>> >>
>> >> The reason is that the compressed locale source code (without the
>> >> charmaps, which are not strictly needed once we patch localedef)

> Can you expand a bit on this part about patch?

localedef currently reads character conversion tables from charmap files
under /usr/share/i18n/charmaps.  The same information is contained in
the gconv modules unconditionally installed under /usr/lib*/gconv.

> Do I understand correctly, that the saving essentially comes from the fact
> that current glibc-langpack-en contains 14 localized variants (AU, BW, ZA,
> US, ...), and only a subset of those could be generated in your proposal?
> If so, would simply splitting glibc-langpack-en further into subpackages
> be an alternative? E.g. glibc-langpack-en-US, glibc-langpack-en-AU,
> ... ?

In theory, yes, but that would result in a few dozen more langpack
packages.

The other variance is the supported single-byte charset (UTF-8,
ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15).

Thansk,
Florian
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux