bug#22572: Handling of system 'locale' field needs improvement

2016-02-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> Better yet, the value of the 'locale' field should be automatically >> added to the default value of 'locale-definitions' if it's not already >> there. The overwhelming majority of users set their 'locale' and have >> no inter

bug#22572: Handling of system 'locale' field needs improvement

2016-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > Better yet, the value of the 'locale' field should be automatically > added to the default value of 'locale-definitions' if it's not already > there. The overwhelming majority of users set their 'locale' and have > no interest in 'locale-definitions'. What about this?

bug#22572: Handling of system 'locale' field needs improvement

2016-02-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Multiple users on #guix have been bitten by the following error message: guix system: error: system locale lacks a definition and even several seasoned developers on #guix didn't know the answer. At minimum, the error message should be improved to point to the relevant documentation. Better y