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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 19:04 -0400, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
> 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. 

But the update story is horrible, because the only way to update is to
upgrade the entire OS image. As is the story for anyone who buys a phone
with those langauges, and needs a different language.

We can do better than that.