From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: is the virtual package <locale>-tanslation correct?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:33:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335285237.21409.19.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335264491.27021.66.camel@phil-desktop>
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 11:48 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 11:45 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:42 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > > Yes, that is the intended behaviour. This is necessary to support
> > > dynamically installed language packs.
> >
> > What uses this out of interest?
>
> I'm not entirely sure to be honest. We used to use it quite heavily in
> Familiar but I have no idea whether Angstrom does the same. The systems
> I'm working on nowadays don't tend to require language packs so I
> haven't personally used that mechanism for a while.
How did the system use this? I can imagine querying the list of
installed packages and then attempting installing xx-locale as a resuilt
but I'm not sure how this other provider helps?
As far as I know, opkg doesn't directly support anything like this?
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-24 9:33 is the virtual package <locale>-tanslation correct? Lu, Lianhao
2012-04-24 9:42 ` Phil Blundell
2012-04-24 10:45 ` Richard Purdie
2012-04-24 10:48 ` Phil Blundell
2012-04-24 16:33 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2012-04-24 16:47 ` Phil Blundell
2012-04-24 19:59 ` Richard Purdie
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