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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2019-03-18T14:50:40Z"
+ content="""
+Pre-building it for all locales would add several hundred
+megabytes to the download.
+
+The over-long path is proving difficult to deal with; it seems it would
+need to hash the path, but the system may not have a hash program
+(this is used on linux systems without coreutils), and
+programs from the bundle can't yet be safely run at this point.
+
+Wouldn't you have had to put it in a directory path that's almost
+4096 bytes deep for this to happen?
+"""]]