Re: glibc-utf8-locales

2022-03-27 Thread Philip McGrath
ve for users seems unhelpful to me. I understand the > > > motivation > > > for the patch > > > > I don't think you do, if that's what you thought it was ;-) > > Sorry I was unclear -- I reckon the motivation for the patch was that > the sema

Re: glibc-utf8-locales

2022-03-08 Thread Simon Josefsson via
k you do, if that's what you thought it was ;-) Sorry I was unclear -- I reckon the motivation for the patch was that the semantics with the old glibc-utf8-locales package was confusing (not containing all UTF-8 locales). Still, I think the old package did provide some useful aspect which is n

Re: glibc-utf8-locales

2022-03-08 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo Simon, Simon Josefsson via wrote: >First, I wonder if this is optimal. There must be many machines >(servers and embedded) where having all locales installed on is >wasteful, but where it is useful to have the C.UTF-8 and/or en_US.UTF-8 >installed, to get minimal working UTF-8 support. Ma

glibc-utf8-locales

2022-03-08 Thread Simon Josefsson via
Hi. Reconfiguring my machine lately fails with: root@hamster ~# guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm guix system: error: glibc-utf8-locales: unknown package guix system: error: failed to load '/etc/config.scm': srfi/srfi-1.scm:586:17: In procedure map1: Throw to key `quit'