Supporting multiple gettext directories

[Roland McGrath]

> Because this would conflict with any software users compile on their
> own (which usually installs into /usr/share/locale/. In a
> packaging-based system (RPM, DEB) you cannot just overwrite arbitrary
> files, because they will get lost with the next package upgrade.

Sure sounds like a packaging issue to me.  I think you need to figure out
how to make all your packages do what you want, rather than have them
conflict with each other and provide parallel files that want to add some
kludge to choose between.