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

From: Christophe Le Bars <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 96 23:17 MET DST

**On 14 Aug, In article "/usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale",
**	MVS (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
MVS>A quick question (probably directed most at Ian). I notice that
MVS>/usr/lib/locale is part of the base system, but that nothing uses it.
MVS>
MVS>OTOH, some packages do provide /usr/share/locale:
MVS>
MVS>$ dpkg -S /usr/share/locale
MVS>textutils, fileutils, sharutils: /usr/share/locale

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...

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From: Christophe Le Bars <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 96 11:30 MET DST

> Doesn't glibc use /usr/share/locale, too?

Well, I don't know... 

 > 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

The next wg15-locale package must provide a symbolic link then
 (/usr/share/i18n -> /usr/share/nls) .