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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
Cc: 36076@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:17:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9xk2mt6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1906031430060.5164@marsh.hcoop.net> (Jack Hill's message of "Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:39:55 -0400 (EDT)")

Hi,

Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> skribis:

> However, I was surprised that even though I had the full set of
> locales available guix-daemon couldn't find the locale it was looking
> for. This is because the default systemd unit for guix-daemon
> configures it to use the en_US.utf8 locale which is provided by
> glibc-utf8-locales (en_US.UTF-8 is in glibc-locales).
>
> I think it would be good to clarify in the manual which locale package
> is needed when using the default daemon configuration on systemd
> foreign distros.

I honestly don’t see how it could be clearer:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales

Could you propose a patch to this section?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-05 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-03 18:39 bug#36076: Manual should clarify that glibc-utf8-locales is needed by default on foreign distros Jack Hill
2019-06-05 13:17 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-06-06  4:46   ` Jack Hill
2019-06-06  7:57     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-05 17:28 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-06-06  4:32   ` Jack Hill
2019-06-06  9:03     ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-06-06 15:38       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-06 16:56         ` Jack Hill
2019-06-07 21:12           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-07 22:59             ` Jack Hill
2019-06-11 14:49         ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-06-12 14:40           ` Ludovic Courtès

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