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Subject: Re: Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:36:22 +0200
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> Just want to confirm I'm doing your workaround properly... like this?
> $ ln -s gnu/store/...-glibc-utf8-locales-2.22/lib/locale
> /run/current-system/locale
> $ echo $LOCPATH
>
> The previous line is blank, showing that $LOCPATH is unset.

I think that would leave you with a dangling symlink when that
/gnu/store item gets garbage collected.  (You also forgot the first
slash.)

The following might be preferable:

  guix package -p /run/current-system/profile -i glibc-locales
  ln -s profile/lib/locale /run/current-system/locale

Don't know if there's an even better way.

HTH,
Taylan