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Re: Is installing `glibc-locales` necessary on GuixSD?


From: Ada Stevenson
Subject: Re: Is installing `glibc-locales` necessary on GuixSD?
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 05:38:24 +0000
User-agent: Icedove Daily

Hi Guix...

This is embarrassing. I sent this email before I actually reconfigured my system, and it seems like the message has gone away and the locales are working....... oops!

Please disregard this message!

On 01/09/2024 6:57 am, Ada Stevenson wrote:
Hi Guix!

Congratulations to everyone who worked on the core-updates merge!

A lot of things have changed though, and I was curious about this new message I've been getting whenever I invoke `guix`.

hint: Consider installing the `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:

     guix install glibc-locales
     export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"

See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.

I've looked at the section in the manual, and it essentially reiterates the message here. For me, this is strange. The benefit of using GuixSD is that stuff like this is handled for me - things like search paths and the like that need to be taken care of separately on a foreign distribution are pre-configured here.

I feel like this new locale change should be one of these things that is handled by GuixSD, somehow incorporated into `%base-packages` and the environment variables set in the default `.profile` script like the other Guix specific env-vars.

What do you all think?

Warmly,
Ada

Warmly,
Ada



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