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[Rasmus Eneman <Rasmus@xxxxxxxxx>]

But you could mount the locations of langpacks on a R/W partition and
letting System Settings install them can be done with Apparmor. Technicall
isues should be solved, not user experiace changed.
On Apr 21, 2014 8:19 PM, "Rodney Dawes" <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
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