But you could mount the locations of langpacks on a R/W partition and letting System Settings install them can be done with Apparmor. Technicall isues should be solved, not user experiace changed. On Apr 21, 2014 8:19 PM, "Rodney Dawes" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 19:54 +0200, Rasmus Eneman wrote: > > As a user I want to be able to buy a phone anywhere and just go to > > System Settings and choose or install my language. So languepacks > > needs to be supported and be installable individually. If this is by > > deb or something else doesn't matter. The only app that would be > > allowed to install language packs is system settings so if it's using > > debs doesn't mean that users can install debs. > > Of cource the language packs needs to be trimmed to only contain > > what's in the image. Apps needs to bring their own translations. > > Actually, yes it does mean that langpacks won't be installable, because > only root can install debs, and the rootfs partition must be writable, > which it is not. The / partition is read-only, and thus nothing can be > installed to it, without enabling some sort of "developer mode" to make > it writable. You certainly don't want to have to enable developer mode, > or plug in via USB and use developer tools, to be able to install the > language you need, when you buy a new phone. > > >
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