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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 19:54 +0200, Rasmus Eneman wrote:
> As a user I want to be able to buy a phone anywhere and just go to
> System Settings and choose or install my language. So languepacks
> needs to be supported and be installable individually. If this is by
> deb or something else doesn't matter. The only app that would be
> allowed to install language packs is system settings so if it's using
> debs doesn't mean that users can install debs.
> Of cource the language packs needs to be trimmed to only contain
> what's in the image. Apps needs to bring their own translations.

Actually, yes it does mean that langpacks won't be installable, because
only root can install debs, and the rootfs partition must be writable,
which it is not. The / partition is read-only, and thus nothing can be
installed to it, without enabling some sort of "developer mode" to make
it writable. You certainly don't want to have to enable developer mode,
or plug in via USB and use developer tools, to be able to install the
language you need, when you buy a new phone.