Bug#461008: locales: on install, perform locales generation in the background

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Fabian Fagerholm a écrit :
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.7-5
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I have a dual AMD Opteron server on which I need to generate all the
> available locales (I cannot predict what each user needs). This takes a
> long time for each locales upgrade, during which some packages are in a
> half-installed state. Perhaps the locales generation could be performed
> in the background so that the rest of the installation could proceed? (I
> haven't given too much thought to the implications of this, so feel free
> to tell me it won't work :)

I don't think dpkg support this kind of thing. It should be possible to
background the process without telling dpkg, but that just means we
can't do any error handling.

However, locales-all is probably the package you want to install.

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