From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Locales
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:04:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sih5qdcc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Hello,
In current ‘master’, libc builds all the available locales and carries
them with itself (~110 MiB.)
In ‘core-updates’ commit 97e1120, I changed libc to build and install
zero locales. Instead, locale definitions that users may want must be
specified in the ‘operating-system’ declaration, in a new
‘locale-definitions’ field (see commit 598e19d in ‘master’.) Locale
data is then available in /run/current-system/locale (and people can
also use $LOCPATH if needed.)
I’ve already noticed that gawk had test failures in the absence of UTF-8
locales, so commit e9bab1d works around it by explicitly invoking
‘localedef’. Hopefully such problems will be quite rare and can be
worked around similarly, on a case by case basis. If it turns out to be
not-so-rare, we can add a helper package that contains locale data, or a
helper procedure somewhere.
Comments welcome!
Ludo’.
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