Language packs vs. locales

[Sivan Green]

On 09:10, Mon 24 Jan 05, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 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.

Yes, as already discussed on IRC, I now realize that
changing the default locale everytime a new lang-pack is
installed could have undesired results, for instance what if
I want several lang-packs installed for some fonts support 
but want my default locale to stay as US UTF8 english ?
Then I would have to dpkg-reconfigure locales in order to
set up my preferred default locale and not the one which the latest
lang-pack. 

Sivan Green
Ubuntu .IL LoCoTeam Lead