Language packs vs. locales

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Shlomi Loubaton [2005-01-24  0:20 +0200]:
> > 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. 

Right, the langpacks should _generate_ the respective locales.
However, above discussion was about setting the _default_ locale,
which the language packs should not do on installation.

Martin

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