F23 System Wide Change: Glibc locale subpackaging

[Alexander Larsson]

On fre, 2015-08-21 at 15:14 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 06/22/2015 10:59 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> > Do they really have to modify locale-archive? Can't each package
> > install separate archive files (say, based on the locale name).
> > Packaging optional extra files is a lot easier for me in my work
> > with
> > an xdg-app runtime based on fedora.
>  
> For now we are modifying locale-archive, but we are aware the this
> causes
> problems with container overlays, and are looking for a solution
> where
> this works on a per-file basis with each new subpackage langauge
> contributing
> a new loadable optimized binary locale file.
> 
> The stepping stone will likely be:
> 
> _install_langs (to limit languages)
> 	-> subpackages that modify locale-archive 
> 		-> subpackages that install their own files
> 
> Please remember the core runtimes are key part of the OS, and we make
> these transitions slowly and gather metrics about how effective each
> step was and how many bugs we got, and if the intermediate changes
> broke anything.

I understand that, and thanks for doing this work, its pretty
important imho. I just wanted to make sure that you were aware of what
the best end goal was.
Btw, do you have any measures of the performance improvements of using
the locale archive is in general? It seems a like many other distros
chose not to use it.
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