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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