Re: Suboptimal experience

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:13:27 +0300,
Dan Partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro> a écrit :

> Ive seen that in manual Julien, but I did not tried it, because the
> manual says: :When using Guix on top of GNU/Linux distribution other
> than GuixSD—a so-called foreign distro—a few additional steps are
> needed to get everything in place. Here are some of them.” Note the
> “… other than GuixSD” formulation.  I use it on GuixSD. Should i
> understand that he manual is flawed and the step is necessary on
> GuixSD as well ?

Oh, you're right. It shouldn't be needed on GuixSD. I guess guix is now
based on a different libc than your system, so it can't find the locale
information. After you reconfigure and reboot, the message should go
away.

> 
> > On Jun 17, 2018, at 23:09, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Le Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:55:03 +0300,
> > Dan Partelly <dan_partelly@rdsor.ro> a écrit :
> >   
> >> guile: warning: failed to install locale.  
> > 
> > This is a "normal" message. You need to install glibc-locales in
> > your profile and set an environment variable. Also, that's only a
> > warning ;).
> > 
> > It's documented here:
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales-1