Hello,

> The only downside will be potentially an extra glibc download/build to
> build the locale set, but that’s probably OK.
>
> WDYT?

I think you're right! Pushed it as
f30d84d32db0f4f6cb84e139868e1727a7dc0a51 on core-updates.

Now the good news is that we are one patch away from having core-updates
to cross-compile bare-bones.tmpl system! This is the patch attached,
we've been discussing it here[1] without reaching a conclusion.

WDYT?

Thanks,

Mathieu

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2019-12/msg00751.html