Agreed. It arose from a misunderstanding of guix and rightly deserves to be ignored and deep sixed.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 7:18 PM Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
