From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 34480@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34480] [PATCH 0/2] Ensure Guix always has 'glibc-utf8-locales'
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:30:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mumxypxr.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190215162533.GA8657@jasmine.lan>
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:17:15PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello Guix,
>>
>> After hearing about so many bad first impressions due to missing locales,
>> I decided to bite the bullet. I still don’t consider the approach
>> really satisfying, in particular due to the arbitrary locale selection
>> in ‘glibc-utf8-locales’, but the benefits are worth it IMO (I feel like
>> I’ve been too obtuse on this topic, and I’m sorry about that!).
>
> Okay, I think it's the right thing to do. We are constantly having to
> explain the locales warning on IRC.
This ensures that Guix itself works without these warnings. It doesn’t
have an effect on installed applications, though, does it? (That’s fine.)
>> The closure size of the ‘guix’ package increases like this:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> $ guix size guix | tail -1
>> total: 354.2 MiB
>> $ guix size guix glibc-utf8-locales | tail -1
>> total: 368.0 MiB
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> That’s a 4% increase, not that bad.
>
> It's worth it.
I agree.
Thank you, Ludo, for reconsidering and implementing this!
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-15 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-14 22:17 [bug#34480] [PATCH 0/2] Ensure Guix always has 'glibc-utf8-locales' Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-14 22:21 ` [bug#34480] [PATCH 1/2] self: Bundle 'glibc-utf8-locales' Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-14 22:21 ` [bug#34480] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: guix: Embed 'glibc-utf8-locales' Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-15 16:25 ` [bug#34480] [PATCH 0/2] Ensure Guix always has 'glibc-utf8-locales' Leo Famulari
2019-02-15 16:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-02-16 0:07 ` bug#34480: " Ludovic Courtès
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