Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

Fabian Greffrath greffrath at leat.rub.de
Tue Jan 20 11:41:00 UTC 2009


Hi Loic, thanks for your answer!

Loïc Minier schrieb:
>  The files will work on both little endian and big endian systems, but
>  there's a performance hit when the endianess differ (as the file can't
>  be used directly when it's mmap-ed).
> 
>  It's a bug, but it's not clear to me how we could fix this while not
>  losing too much space.
> 
>  [...]
> 
>  I'd rather not implement anything specific in epiphany-browser, it
>  would be best to discuss this more widely and come to a generic
>  solution for all arch: all packages.

May I conclude that it is common practice to ship little-endian locale 
files in arch-indep data packages that are also referenced by 
big-endian arch packages? While not being perfect, it is convenient 
and (most importantly) it actually works -- somehow.

Cheers,
Fabian

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