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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: Re: Locales not working
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:30:24 +0100
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Ah, it turns out that I wrote my message before reading the ongoing discussion
on locales. What a coincidence! So we were at least two being bitten by this
bug (yes, yes) at the same time! I do not think it is reasonable to break
systems for saving 100MB.

The code of glibc states
            ;; Installing a locale archive with all the locales is to
            ;; expensive (~100 MiB), so we rely on users to install the
            ;; locales they really want.
But how do I do that? I wondered if there was an additional "locale" output
of glibc, but there is not.

$ guix package -A locale
does not return anything useful.

There is a section 6.2.6 in the manual, but it only speaks about GSD,
not about Guix inside other systems.

So there needs to be a simple way to install locales to be used by Guix
packages, and it needs to be documented. Or the patch could be reverted.

Andreas