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scms locales are not automatically loaded

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Rich:
Hi AbNoRMiS
While one of the core principles behind Tinycore is a small footprint, the point behind an scm is to be self contained.
As a result, scms are larger anyway since they contain private copies of libraries that would normally be shared
between extensions. Personally I think it makes sense from a self contained point of view to include locales.

AbNoRMiS:
murphy was right: any solutions breeds a new problems
frankly if my wish then i would leave as is now, it would be the easiest solution
but i think after some time someone will offer question of locale automation again
i am sure in this because even before this topic was established
i would propose changes to automatic download, install and remove tcz locales
 :)

Jason W:
It really is a shame that now someone is going to have to download and store a 20MB extension instead of an 8MB one in the case of gimp2-basic.scm.  Or 22MB instead of 11MB in the case of gtk2.scm.   All because one or two people were not satisfied with having to go through the effort of clicking "Install" in the Scmbrowser to install their needed locale extension data.

AbNoRMiS:
must confess that i been one of those three people
but then the other two diverged for some reason
 :)

Jason W:
I spoke in a moment of frustration, it is not really that simple nor for that reason that we are going to include locales in the main scm extensions.  Though sure, this thread sparked that debate, there were several issues to consider regarding loading, unloading, etc. .

Mostly, we don't want the scm to head down the slippery slope of feeling it needs to compete with the tcz in terms of modularity, size, etc, therefore diluting it's main goal of being self contained.  Larger downloads are just part of that concept. 

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