On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar