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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:39:07PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> My leaning would be to use complete
> files for language-based locales, and file-per-category for individual
> category locales that are not associated with any particular language
> (and where, thereby, there's no assumption that they should provide
> any behavior to other categories).

This feels appropriate - if the definitions indeed fall into distinctive
classes like "full" / "single-category" and also if the naming reflects
the distinction (keeping objects with different properties in the same
name space is otherwise harmful, among others harmful for ease of
understanding by the prospective users and administrators).

Thanks.

Rune