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* Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade
@ 2015-09-28  9:17 Federico Beffa
  2015-09-28 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
  2015-09-29 14:32 ` Mark H Weaver
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 29+ messages in thread
From: Federico Beffa @ 2015-09-28  9:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Guix-devel

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

> Consequences for Guix on foreign distros:
>
>   • 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=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale would break
>     all the distro-provided programs), or use exclusively Guix-provided
>     programs, or use the “C” 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

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2015-09-28  9:17 Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade Federico Beffa
2015-09-28 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-30 12:35   ` Federico Beffa
2015-09-30 13:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-30 15:53       ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-01 21:58         ` [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-02  0:06           ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-02 16:52             ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-03 22:20               ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-03 22:56                 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-10-04  8:09                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-04 17:04                 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-05 14:38                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-04  8:32           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-10-04  8:39             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-10-04 12:32               ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-04 16:56                 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-05 14:35                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-05 15:38                     ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-05 19:39                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-05 21:09                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-06  6:29                         ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-01 21:58         ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: glibc: Honor 'GUIX_LOCPATH' Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-01 21:58         ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: glibc: Look for locale data in versioned sub-directories Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-01  7:02     ` Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade Konrad Hinsen
2015-09-29 14:32 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-29 16:12   ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-01 19:57   ` Leo Famulari
2015-10-01 20:36     ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer

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