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LC_TIME category in Coreutils

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: LC_TIME category in Coreutils
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:01:21 +0100

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> skribis:
>
>> I tried adding 'glibc-locales' to my system profile, and got this:
>>
>> ERROR: union-build: collision between file and directories ((files ("/gnu/store/nda1ih2iy8likfipl62afiqs6jwdsfxi-glibc-locales-2.20/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_TIME")) (dirs ("/gnu/store/mgfqcbm31rh738z13xlwh9ld9dm2vfvz-coreutils-8.23/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_TIME")))
>>
>> Indeed, in coreutils "share/locale/zh_CN/LC_TIME" is a directory
>> containing a symbolic link "coreutils.mo" pointing to
>> "../LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", whereas in glibc-locales
>> "share/locale/zh_CN/LC_TIME" is a binary file.
>>
>> Any ideas how to resolve this conflict?
>
> I would have expected packages other than libc to provide only
> LC_MESSAGES, so I didn’t think such collisions could happen.

glibc's locale files are supposed to reside in $(libdir)/locale, not
$(datadir)/locale, so there is no conflict.

Andreas.

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