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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Only if the langpacks are not debs. Nobody is necessarily talking about
changing the UX. The UX right now doesn't even exist yet. Just because
something has historically worked a certain way in Ubuntu, doesn't mean
that's the right way for it to work on the phone, in a confined
environment. And the technical solution can only be implemented once
we've decided what that UX should be, exactly. 

On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 22:50 +0200, Rasmus Eneman wrote:
> 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.
>         
>