From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Lack of locales in build environment Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:15:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87siedzcwi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87386d3d0p.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLI9c-00005a-CF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:15:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLI9Z-00043m-4a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:15:32 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLI9Z-00043i-1w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:15:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Federico Beffa's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:36:58 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel Federico Beffa skribis: > From my point of view it would be good to include en_US.UTF-8 by > default for two reasons: (i) we already are at 7 (4+3) packages > requiring an UTF-8 locale and, I guess, that this number is doomed to > increase in the following years. (ii) This is another small step in > making maintenance easier by providing an environment setting that > sometimes helps. Right. How about this: we make a package with a bunch of locales, and in core-updates we add a specification for $LOCPATH to glibc. For those packages, we would just add that locales package to their inputs and be done with it. WDYT? Ludo=E2=80=99.