Hi Dmitry, Dmitry Alexandrov <321...@gmail.com> skribis:
> As of now [0] a search path ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ is exported when ‘glibc’ > package, which does not comprise any locales, is installed. I guess, > it should belong to ‘glibc-locales’ and ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ instead. The idea of search path specifications like ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ is that the package that honors them defines them. For example, Python defines ‘PYTHONPATH’, Guile defines ‘GUILE_LOAD_PATH’, and so on. In this case, ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ is honored by glibc, so glibc defines it. If instead ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ defined it, then you’d immediately get the recommendation about setting ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’, which I guess is what you’d like to see. However, every locale-providing package would need to define it, which is not great. On a related note, see this issue about indirect search path specifications: <https://bugs.gnu.org/22138>. Does it make sense? Thanks for your message, Ludo’.
