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[bug#34480] [PATCH 0/2] Ensure Guix always has 'glibc-utf8-locales'
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Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
[bug#34480] [PATCH 0/2] Ensure Guix always has 'glibc-utf8-locales' |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:30:40 +0100 |
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Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:17:15PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello Guix,
>>
>> After hearing about so many bad first impressions due to missing locales,
>> I decided to bite the bullet. I still don’t consider the approach
>> really satisfying, in particular due to the arbitrary locale selection
>> in ‘glibc-utf8-locales’, but the benefits are worth it IMO (I feel like
>> I’ve been too obtuse on this topic, and I’m sorry about that!).
>
> Okay, I think it's the right thing to do. We are constantly having to
> explain the locales warning on IRC.
This ensures that Guix itself works without these warnings. It doesn’t
have an effect on installed applications, though, does it? (That’s fine.)
>> The closure size of the ‘guix’ package increases like this:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> $ guix size guix | tail -1
>> total: 354.2 MiB
>> $ guix size guix glibc-utf8-locales | tail -1
>> total: 368.0 MiB
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> That’s a 4% increase, not that bad.
>
> It's worth it.
I agree.
Thank you, Ludo, for reconsidering and implementing this!
--
Ricardo