Danek Duvall wrote:
> That'd be nice and simple for some folks. The reason for the split is to
> ease localization. SUNWman gets sent to the L10N teams, who do their
> magic, and integrate SUNW<locale>man to the Solaris WOS. It reduces the
> amount of non-localizable stuff that's available in each package they have
> to deal with, and gives them fewer packages.
I'd think SUNW0coreutils would have the added advantage of knowing they can
release the entire localizable contents as part of their open source deliveries
instead of having to try to split out the parts of SUNW0man they can and can't
release to open source.
> Also, for anyone considering stuffing all the locales (as delivered by the
> component itself) into one package along with the non-localizable bits,
> this turns out to be bad idea.
Absolutely - we should make it easy for the community to deliver new locales
as add-on packages if they want to support locales we don't, instead of forcing
them to rev the base package.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
