Re: Is installing `glibc-locales` necessary on GuixSD?

[Ada Stevenson <adanskana@gmail.com>]

Hi Guix...

This is embarrassing. I sent this email before I actually reconfigured 
my system, and it seems like the message has gone away and the locales 
are working....... oops!

Please disregard this message!

On 01/09/2024 6:57 am, Ada Stevenson wrote:
> Hi Guix!
> 
> Congratulations to everyone who worked on the core-updates merge!
> 
> A lot of things have changed though, and I was curious about this new 
> message I've been getting whenever I invoke `guix`.
> 
>> hint: Consider installing the `glibc-locales' package and defining 
>> `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
>>
>>      guix install glibc-locales
>>      export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
>>
>> See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
> 
> I've looked at the section in the manual, and it essentially reiterates 
> the message here. For me, this is strange. The benefit of using GuixSD 
> is that stuff like this is handled for me - things like search paths and 
> the like that need to be taken care of separately on a foreign 
> distribution are pre-configured here.
> 
> I feel like this new locale change should be one of these things that is 
> handled by GuixSD, somehow incorporated into `%base-packages` and the 
> environment variables set in the default `.profile` script like the 
> other Guix specific env-vars.
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Warmly,
> Ada

Warmly,
Ada