Fedora runtimes and sandboxed desktop applications

[Alexander Larsson]

On ons, 2015-05-27 at 18:39 +0530, pravin.d.s at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>         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.

This sounds excellent! Thanks!

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