On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:22:13PM -0700, Michael Gorlick wrote: > You are right and the confusion is mine. The reason the error messages > disappeared is that thanks to a "guix pull", a "guix upgrade", and a "guix > install glibc-utf8-locales" on user "root" I now have the latest version of > the utf8-locales, 2.31, installed at > */var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale.* > > Sorry for the bother. However, judging by prior discussions not everyone > understands that the build daemons rely in this way on the guix-profile of > the root. It would help if the documentation pointed out this common > misunderstanding and explicitly advised users on foreign distributions to > pull and upgrade the root profile regularly.
Yeah, locales are one of the bigger user experience problem with Guix :/ The warnings are a definite improvement over how it used to be, when glibc would simply ABORT any program that was using the wrong version of locales. We are still searching for a solid solution to the problem, as we've been tweaking the documentation for years now, but people still report the warnings all the time.
