[Localization] [sugar] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have been thinking of having a separate place in the filesystem for
>> _new_ translations, and using RPM to manage the installation and
>> upgradation of the new translations.
>
> What is the downside of RPMs? If users edit the localisation locally,
> that is _fine_ and we can provide a mechanism to make an rpm easily
> out of it.
>
> rpm has limited support for "user installable" packages that are meant
> to be installed in your homedir. Maybe it can serve this purpose, even
> within its limitations?
>
> If that doesn't work properly, maybe we install the rpm as root, but
> invoking rpm with --noscripts, and perhaps auditing the pkg manifest
> to check for anything with suid flags, etc. We could even build a dumb
> rpm unpacker/installer but I doubt it is needed.
>
> A new bundle format makes us more incompatible with the world.
> Example:  someone builds a localisation for us, it won't work for
> Fedora, and viceversa.

Fedora does not have a standard solution either,  so I'm not sure
where you're going with this.  We have to invent something.  RPM is
not obviously the right solution.
 --scott


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