Re: [PATCH] locale: Make the file name of the locale archive configurable

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

* Yann Droneaud:

> Le mardi 04 juin 2019 à 15:40 +0200, Florian Weimer a écrit :
>> This improves support for parallel installation and upgrade scenarios
>> involving changes to the locale archive format or the data stored in
>> it.
>> 
>
> This could hurt exchanging statically linked programs between Linux
> distributions: I think of this scenario where one program is built on
> Debian and it won't be able to find the locale archive on Fedora.
>
> I'm not afraid of this kind of breakage when it comes to statically
> linked program (because of gconv, nss, and such), but it would require
> some warning in the documentation.

Hmm.  That's right.  I think we need to solve our little problem in
another way.

Technically, statically linked binaries are not portable today, but we
should move in the other direction, not towards more incompatibilities.

Thanks,
Florian