[oi-dev] conflicting files, dependencies and moving spec files to oi-userland

[Marcel Telka]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 08:23:45PM +0400, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm trying to import SUNWxscreensaver.spec to oi-userland.
> The issue is that it is actually three different packages. I've
> almost finished with xscreensaver itself, but there are also
> xscreensaver/hacks, xscreensaver/hacks/hacks-gl and
> xscreensaver/hacks/rss-glx.
> The process of determining package boundaries is rather boring and
> error-prone :)
> 
> So, I came to the following:
> now we ship xscreensaver.mo files in gnome/locale/XX packages, which
> (at least gnome/locale/ru) by the way conflict with
> gnome/accessibility/gnome-a11y-libs (on
> usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/at-spi.mo), desktop/gtk2 (on
> usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo) and so on....
> 
> The question is following: if we build application on by-component
> basis, how can we create global package like gnome/locale/XX ?
> Probably, it can be converted to just meta-package with a lot of
> dependencies on, e.g. xscreeensaver/locale/XX and so on.
> 
> The other question is what to do with localization in this
> particular case...

We should probably start to use facets for locale files (.mo).
As it is done by Solaris 11.

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