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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 23:09:39 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> I'm wondering if it would be better to point GUIX_LOCPATH to
>
> export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale
>
> and have 'glibc' itself to append it's own version number to that
> string. In this way pre 2.22 programs (last official Guix(SD) release)
> would find pre-2.22 locale in '/$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale'.

With the discussion on IRC following your message, I ended up going back
to the solution that appends /2.22 to the GUIX_LOCPATH entries
automatically:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.guix.devel/12004

We’ll settle on that and declare the problem solved now.  :-)

Sorry for the hesitations.  It’s one of these situations where we have
conflicting principles: simplifying the users lives, and remaining close
to what upstream does.

Ludo’.



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