From: Pascal Terjan Date: 2005-09-24T18:45:14+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyGems in Ruby HEAD - Debian On 9/24/05, mathew wrote: > If the locale package was built the way some people seem to be > suggesting Ruby libraries need to be packaged, you'd have separate .deb > files for every single locale, consisting of locale data pre-compiled by > a dedicated team of Debian locale repackagers. People who wanted obscure > locales would have to post requests to have them repackaged. Can we all > agree that would be silly? No, and that's what is done in Mandriva. All the locales are generated when building the glibc and then we have about a hundred locales-[lang] packages.