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To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Cc: 24192@debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 09:19:23AM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> >>> Isn't there a more automated way to handle these environment variables?
> >>
> >> I don't think so: if you are not on GuixSD, you have to set these
> >> variables yourself.
> >
> > Actually, I am on GuixSD. Does that mean there is some automated to do
> > this? If I have to set them manually, how do I find out what values to
> > set?
> 
> I too, am on guixsd, and I think setting some of those variables by myself
> solved a problem running things, but I may misremember...
> 
> So is this actually needed on guixsd or not ? Is there a bug somewhere
> making it required when it should not ? How can we be sure, how can we
> know which variables should be set ?

Regarding GUIX_LOCPATH, there is a bug with our current glibc/linux
package and how it finds locales, mentioned here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-08/msg00165.html