Language packs vs. locales

[Shlomi Loubaton]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:40:37 +0100, Danilo Šegan <danilo at kvota.net> wrote:
> Today at 17:26, Shlomi Loubaton wrote:
> 
> > I think that it's reasonable to have my locales set when installing
> > language package.
> 
> Nope, what if you want to add another language pack for your friend at
> a later date?  You'd have to uninstall your original locale, and
> install it back once you install the new one :)

well , we could do that .. but it would be just silly .. right? :)
I was actually thinking about using and generating both locales in such case.
The system can generate several locales , so i would expect both
locales to be supported and generated by the system. That is: when a
lang-package is installed - it checks if the locale it requires is
supported and if not it should append it to locale.gen (and update
debconf?) and regenerate locales. it shouldn't be too complicated
(about 3-4 lines of bash script).

Shlomil.

   Shlomil