From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [66.249.82.239] (helo=wx-out-0506.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I11eW-0001GU-RT for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:59:25 +0200 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h29so200381wxd for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.63.16 with SMTP id l16mr457114aga.1182351341184; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cube ( [82.193.98.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 24sm238828nzn.2007.06.20.07.55.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:41 +0300 From: Paul Sokolovsky X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1988388622.20070620175541@gmail.com> To: "Sergey Lapin" In-Reply-To: <48239d390706200725xfceb517o8faf1e8bb88aaa9f@mail.gmail.com> References: <48239d390706200314y300766en9956ec5e56789ce5@mail.gmail.com> <48239d390706200725xfceb517o8faf1e8bb88aaa9f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [RFC] locales X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:59:26 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Sergey, Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 5:25:34 PM, you wrote: [] >> select a language? E.g. in the case of Opie you want to have a >> language for Opie, in the case for GPE you want to have gettext files >> for the whole system and GPE. You don't want to install translations >> where you don't have the package installed but when you install the >> package you want to have the translations automatically installed. >> >> I don't think this is in the scope of OE but in the scope of >> distributions working together with the environment (GPE, Opie) to >> find a proper solution. Everything to implement it is already there.... > big distros don't require so much space economy, so they package > translations inside packages, so the problem is solved. I personally > like RRECOMMENDS solution, like > reciepe foo generates foo, foo-locale, foo-doc, foo-dev. > we have var IMAGE_LOCALES="en_GB en_US" > then RRECOMMENDS_foo will be = "${PN}-locale-en-gb ${PN}-locale-en-us" This will lead to contamination of package metadata and consequently to errors, hard to track for many people (for example, if you change IMAGE_LOCALES later, previously built packages will still pull old locale set). L19n really needs special handling. -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com