From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Federico Beffa Subject: Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:17:46 +0200 Message-ID: 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]:51143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgUZB-0006oa-2M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 05:17:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgUZA-0005c1-9G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 05:17:49 -0400 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: Guix-devel ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: [...] > Consequences for Guix on foreign distros: > > =E2=80=A2 If the host distro provides binaries that use libc < 2.22 and= you > use a mixture of Guix-provided and distro-provided programs, this is > pretty bad. > > Solution: unset LOCPATH and say goodbye to locales for Guix-provided > packages (setting LOCPATH=3D$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale would brea= k > all the distro-provided programs), or use exclusively Guix-provided > programs, or use the =E2=80=9CC=E2=80=9D locale. Does this means that Guix on other distributions is no longer of interest to the Guix project and it is essentially unsupported? Or is this a transitory situation and an acceptable solution is being worked on? Regards, Fede