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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