l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mark H Weaver <m...@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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