Fedora runtimes and sandboxed desktop applications

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

> One thing that is different from docker however, is that we generally
> want translations/locales in the runtime. But these are pretty large,
> so we want to handle them in a smart way. xdg-app has a feature that
> allows splitting a runtime into a base and a set of optional
> extensions that are mounted in the sandbox only when they are
> installed. I use this in the gnome runtime to split out each
> locale. Unfortunately Fedora uses a single large locale-archive file
> for its locales, so its hard to do that. This needs some research to
> figure out how to do properly.
>
>
Fedora Internationalization team working with Glibc to split
locale-archive. This is in plan as a change proposal for F23.
Hopefully we will see good progress soon.
Cheers,
Pravin Satpute
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