From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Lack of locales in build environment
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:15:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87siedzcwi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrPhPMAM8zBeKQobX-6jZtJaKBDa+gMbCnpc0fznmkR66oCfA@mail.gmail.com> (Federico Beffa's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:36:58 +0100")
Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:
> From my point of view it would be good to include en_US.UTF-8 by
> default for two reasons: (i) we already are at 7 (4+3) packages
> requiring an UTF-8 locale and, I guess, that this number is doomed to
> increase in the following years. (ii) This is another small step in
> making maintenance easier by providing an environment setting that
> sometimes helps.
Right.
How about this: we make a package with a bunch of locales, and in
core-updates we add a specification for $LOCPATH to glibc.
For those packages, we would just add that locales package to their
inputs and be done with it.
WDYT?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-10 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-10 16:38 core-updates merged! Federico Beffa
2015-02-10 17:13 ` Lack of locales in build environment Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-10 17:36 ` Federico Beffa
2015-02-10 18:02 ` John Darrington
2015-02-10 21:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-10 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-02-10 18:46 ` core-updates merged! Andreas Enge
2015-02-10 18:50 ` John Darrington
2015-02-10 19:38 ` Federico Beffa
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2015-02-10 19:54 Lack of locales in build environment Federico Beffa
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