Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade

[Federico Beffa]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

> Consequences for Guix on foreign distros:
>
>   • If the host distro provides binaries that use libc < 2.22 and you
>     use a mixture of Guix-provided and distro-provided programs, this is
>     pretty bad.
>
>     Solution: unset LOCPATH and say goodbye to locales for Guix-provided
>     packages (setting LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale would break
>     all the distro-provided programs), or use exclusively Guix-provided
>     programs, or use the “C” locale.

Does this means that Guix on other distributions is no longer of
interest to the Guix project and it is essentially unsupported?

Or is this a transitory situation and an acceptable solution is being
worked on?

Regards,
Fede