tis 2022-03-08 klockan 10:28 +0000 skrev Tobias Geerinckx-Rice:
> Hullo Simon,
> 
> Simon Josefsson via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
> > First, I wonder if this is optimal.  There must be many machines
> > (servers and embedded) where having all locales installed on is
> > wasteful, but where it is useful to have the C.UTF-8 and/or
> > en_US.UTF-8
> > installed, to get minimal working UTF-8 support.  Making this hard
> > to
> > achieve for users seems unhelpful to me.  I understand the
> > motivation
> > for the patch
> 
> I don't think you do, if that's what you thought it was ;-) 

Sorry I was unclear -- I reckon the motivation for the patch was that
the semantics with the old glibc-utf8-locales package was confusing
(not containing all UTF-8 locales).  Still, I think the old package did
provide some useful aspect which is now lost, and has to be worked
around with more complex logic.  Offering a newer more simple solution
is what I'm asking for.  Meanwhile I'm happy to use the more complex
solution that you helped me with (below).

> >  (append (map specification->package
> >                         '("glibc-useful-swedish-utf8-locales"
> 
> You have a (probably left-over) specification->package call but no
> "glibc-useful-swedish-utf8-locales"  package in Guix for it to find. 
> It does not search the environment.
> 
> Remove the spec and refer to your custom variable directly, e.g.:
> 
>   (packages (append (list glibc-useful-swedish-utf8-locales ...)
> ...))

Thanks, I managed to get it to work now:

https://gitlab.com/jas/sjd-cosmos/-/blob/master/hamster.josefsson.org/overlay/etc/config.scm

https://gitlab.com/jas/sjd-cosmos/-/commit/cecbdf4ad834c3d06e1344d843582ac1defa935b

However, I'm not sure it is fully working, 'locale -a' gives me more
than just the locales I specified?!  Yes I did successful 'system
reconfigure' and reboot into new system.

/Simon


root@hamster ~# /gnu/store/2fk1gz2s7ppdicynscra9b19byrrr866-glibc-
2.33/bin/locale -a
C
ca_ES.utf8
cs_CZ.utf8
da_DK.utf8
de_DE.utf8
el_GR.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_US.UTF-8
es_AR.utf8
es_CL.utf8
es_ES.utf8
es_MX.utf8
fi_FI.utf8
fr_BE.utf8
fr_CA.utf8
fr_CH.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
ga_IE.utf8
it_IT.utf8
ja_JP.utf8
ko_KR.utf8
nb_NO.utf8
nl_NL.utf8
pl_PL.utf8
POSIX
pt_PT.utf8
ro_RO.utf8
ru_RU.utf8
sv_SE.utf8
tr_TR.utf8
uk_UA.utf8
vi_VN.utf8
zh_CN.utf8
root@hamster ~#