Hi, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes:
> 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. I think the situation has improved a lot in recent years. I'll close this since the title is misguided, and since it's very old :-). Thank you, Maxim
