Subject: /usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:25:16 +0200 (MET DST)

Hello all,

A quick question (probably directed most at Ian). I notice that
/usr/lib/locale is part of the base system, but that nothing uses it.

OTOH, some packages do provide /usr/share/locale:

$ dpkg -S /usr/share/locale
textutils, fileutils, sharutils: /usr/share/locale

I have to decide what to use since the new GNU libc6 wants to know
where the locale directory is, and with the new FSSTND coming up, and
existing practice, etc.

/usr/lib/locale    or   /usr/share/locale ?

[I've configured it for /usr/share/locale at the moment]

Mike.
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From: Michael Meskes <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:39:00 +0200 (MET DST)

Christophe Le Bars writes:
> wg15-locale install locale files in /usr/share/locale
> # dpkg -S /usr/share/locale
> wg15-locale: /usr/share/locale
> 
> libc6 must conflict with wg15-locale (<1-2) if the locale
> directory change...

Doesn't glibc use /usr/share/locale, too? The only difference I'm aware of
is /usr/share/i18n instead of /usr/share/nls. But then this already holds
for libc5 starting with 5.4.0

Michael

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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:36:26 +0200 (MET DST)

You (Christophe Le Bars) wrote:
>  > Doesn't glibc use /usr/share/locale, too?
> 
> Well, I don't know... 

I do. That's the reason I started this thread: should it or shouldn't it?
I've deciced it should, and I'm configuring glibc to use /usr/share.

Now should we move /usr/lib/zoneinfo too? What does the FHS say?

(Mind you I'm working on the Alpha port so I don't have a reason to
 desire backwards compatibility).

Mike.