TZ and i18n files.

[Tim Harrison]

Please, don't kill me for asking this question. :)

While working on the final build for LinuxSTEP 0.2.5, I ran across 
something that made me go "hrmm".

I was making the package of glibc 2.2.5, and realised that I now had two 
places to specify timezones and i18n stuff.  GNUstep has it's own 
directories for that, as does glibc.

I know that it would break portability to have GNUstep depend on those 
files from glibc, as not every system uses it.  However, if the files 
are similar (as I believe they all come from a common source), would 
adding, say, --with-alt-tz=/path/to/files and 
--with-alt-i18n=/path/to/files be a horrific thing?  That way, you'd 
only have one place on the filesystem containing those types of files, 
instead of two.  Not to mention, it would make my life easier on 
LinuxSTEP. ;)

Let me just point out that I'm not totally familiar with this specific 
topic, so this is just a curiosity post.


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Tim Harrison
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