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Special setup for Guix atop another distro
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Special setup for Guix atop another distro |
Date: |
Mon, 18 May 2015 22:17:37 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Hello!
Our manual lacks info on things that need to be tweaked when using Guix
on top of another distro.
To get the discussion started, here’s a preliminary patch for you people
to complete. :-)
Please report all the things that you’ve had to tweak, or annoyances
that you don’t know how to fix.
Ludo’.
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 6964a4e..056518f 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ Installation
* Running the Test Suite:: Testing Guix.
* Setting Up the Daemon:: Preparing the build daemon's environment.
* Invoking guix-daemon:: Running the build daemon.
+* Application Setup:: Application-specific setup.
Setting Up the Daemon
@@ -246,6 +247,7 @@ instead, you want to install the complete GNU operating
system,
* Running the Test Suite:: Testing Guix.
* Setting Up the Daemon:: Preparing the build daemon's environment.
* Invoking guix-daemon:: Running the build daemon.
+* Application Setup:: Application-specific setup.
@end menu
@node Binary Installation
@@ -830,6 +832,39 @@ daemons on the same machine.
@end table
address@hidden Application Setup
address@hidden Application Setup
+
+When using Guix on top of another GNU/Linux distribution, you may find
+that a few additional steps are needed to get everything in place. Here
+are some of them.
+
address@hidden Locales
+
+Packages installed @i{via} Guix will not use the host system's locale
+data. Instead, you must first install one of the locale packages
+available with Guix and the define the @code{LOCPATH} environment
+variable (@pxref{Locale Names, @code{LOCPATH},, libc, The GNU C Library
+Reference Manual}):
+
address@hidden
+$ guix package -i glibc-locales
+$ export LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale
address@hidden example
+
+FIXME: Anything else?
+
address@hidden X11 Fonts
+
+The majority of graphical applications uses Fontconfig to locate and
+load font and perform X11-client-side rendering. Guix's
address@hidden package looks for fonts in the user's profile by
+default, so you have to install them there.
+
+FIXME: but actually Fontconfig's cache will have the host distro's fonts
+listed, so maybe this is not a problem?
+
+
@c *********************************************************************
@node Package Management
@chapter Package Management
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