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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#27244: Should not $GUIX_LOCPATH belong to
	=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98glibc-locales=E2=80=99?= rather than
	=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98glibc=E2=80=99=3F?=
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 22:39:23 +0200
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To: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
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Hi Dmitry,

Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> skribis:

> As of now [0] a search path =E2=80=98GUIX_LOCPATH=E2=80=99 is exported wh=
en =E2=80=98glibc=E2=80=99
> package, which does not comprise any locales, is installed.  I guess,
> it should belong to =E2=80=98glibc-locales=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98glibc-ut=
f8-locales=E2=80=99 instead.

The idea of search path specifications like =E2=80=98GUIX_LOCPATH=E2=80=99 =
is that the
package that honors them defines them.

For example, Python defines =E2=80=98PYTHONPATH=E2=80=99, Guile defines
=E2=80=98GUILE_LOAD_PATH=E2=80=99, and so on.

In this case, =E2=80=98GUIX_LOCPATH=E2=80=99 is honored by glibc, so glibc =
defines it.

If instead =E2=80=98glibc-utf8-locales=E2=80=99 defined it, then you=E2=80=
=99d immediately get
the recommendation about setting =E2=80=98GUIX_LOCPATH=E2=80=99, which I gu=
ess is what
you=E2=80=99d like to see.  However, every locale-providing package would n=
eed
to define it, which is not great.

On a related note, see this issue about indirect search path
specifications: <https://bugs.gnu.org/22138>.

Does it make sense?

Thanks for your message,
Ludo=E2=80=99.