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Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:

> I'm wondering if it would be better to point GUIX_LOCPATH to
>
> export GUIX_LOCPATH=3D$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale
>
> and have 'glibc' itself to append it's own version number to that
> string. In this way pre 2.22 programs (last official Guix(SD) release)
> would find pre-2.22 locale in '/$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale'.

With the discussion on IRC following your message, I ended up going back
to the solution that appends /2.22 to the GUIX_LOCPATH entries
automatically:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.guix.devel/12004

We=E2=80=99ll settle on that and declare the problem solved now.  :-)

Sorry for the hesitations.  It=E2=80=99s one of these situations where we h=
ave
conflicting principles: simplifying the users lives, and remaining close
to what upstream does.

Ludo=E2=80=99.