[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> After a lot more thought, I changed my mind.
>
> I realized that with the patch at
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-09/msg00575.html>, it’s OK to
> have, say,
>
>
> LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale/2.22:$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale/2.23
>
> That way, programs will pick locale data that is compatible; so a 2.23
> program might pick most of its locale data from the /2.22 directory (if
> they are compatible), and some of them from /2.23 (if the format has
> changed.)
I'm a bit uncomfortable with this. A few questions:
* Will your glibc patch reliably ensure that no functionality is lost
because of picking up the wrong version of locales?
* Do we have a mechanism for automatically setting LOCPATH (or
GUIX_LOCPATH) to include all of the available locale versioned
subdirectories?
Mark
