From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
Cc: 27244@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27244: Should not $GUIX_LOCPATH belong to ‘glibc-locales’ rather than ‘glibc’?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 22:39:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inka9nk4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shjf8abx.fsf@gmail.com> (Dmitry Alexandrov's message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2017 04:58:10 +0300")
Hi Dmitry,
Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> skribis:
> As of now [0] a search path ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ is exported when ‘glibc’
> package, which does not comprise any locales, is installed. I guess,
> it should belong to ‘glibc-locales’ and ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ instead.
The idea of search path specifications like ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ is that the
package that honors them defines them.
For example, Python defines ‘PYTHONPATH’, Guile defines
‘GUILE_LOAD_PATH’, and so on.
In this case, ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ is honored by glibc, so glibc defines it.
If instead ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ defined it, then you’d immediately get
the recommendation about setting ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’, which I guess is what
you’d like to see. However, every locale-providing package would need
to define it, which is not great.
On a related note, see this issue about indirect search path
specifications: <https://bugs.gnu.org/22138>.
Does it make sense?
Thanks for your message,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-05 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-05 1:58 bug#27244: Should not $GUIX_LOCPATH belong to ‘glibc-locales’ rather than ‘glibc’? Dmitry Alexandrov
2017-06-05 20:39 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-06-06 1:33 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2017-06-06 22:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-07 7:06 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2017-06-07 9:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
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