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[Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/16/2014 01:11 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> And the convenience of lang packs would only be for things where we
>> > are the upstream (and probably only things that are in the image
>> > itself, rather than updated via clicks).
> Yes, we agree (that's what I wrote as well). As I said, the langpack
> concept makes a lot less sense on system images where it doesn't
> matter which "package" the bit you update (a .mo file) came from.
>
Deb based language packs (for core stuff) do make sense when phone oem/service
provider system images are created. Their rootfs gets just the languages they
need (not all languages), saving disk.