Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package

[Mark H Weaver]

Hello all,

The 'bash' in the glibc package is handicapped in at least two ways:

* It can't set the locale, because it looks for locales in
  /nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.18-locales

* It can't look up anything from NSS, such as passwd data, because it
  tries to load the modules from
  /nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.18

There are two problems that need to be addressed, I think:

* Users could easily end up with this handicapped 'bash' as their
  primary bash, if they installed (or upgraded?) 'glibc' since the last
  time I installed 'bash'.  This happened to me, for example.

* Some (most?) programs in Guix that launch subprocesses with the shell
  use this handicapped one.  For example, every time I run 'w3m', it
  prints two warnings about 'sh' being unable to set the locale.

Any suggestions about how we should address these problems?

     Thanks,
       Mark