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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-10-05 22:27:23 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-10-05 22:34:34 +0200
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Revert "gnu: glibc: Honor 'GUIX_LOCPATH'."
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@node Application Setup
@section Application Setup
-When using Guix on top of GNU/Linux distribution other than GuixSD---a
-so-called @dfn{foreign distro}---a few additional steps are needed to
-get everything in place. Here are some of them.
+When using Guix on top of GNU/Linux distribution other than GuixSD, a
+few additional steps are needed to get everything in place. Here are
+some of them.
@subsection Locales
@anchor{locales-and-locpath}
@cindex locales, when not on GuixSD
@vindex LOCPATH
-@vindex GUIX_LOCPATH
Packages installed @i{via} Guix will not use the host system's locale
data. Instead, you must first install one of the locale packages
-available with Guix and then define the @code{GUIX_LOCPATH} environment
-variable:
+available with Guix and then define the @code{LOCPATH} environment
+variable (@pxref{Locale Names, @code{LOCPATH},, libc, The GNU C Library
+Reference Manual}):
@example
$ guix package -i glibc-locales
-$ export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale/2.22
+$ export LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale
@end example
-The @file{/2.22} sub-directory is if you install locales from
-@code{glibc-locales-2.22}---i.e., locales for libc version 2.22. Adjust
-in accordance with the libc version being used.
-
Note that the @code{glibc-locales} package contains data for all the
locales supported by the GNU@tie{}libc and weighs in at around
110@tie{}MiB. Alternately, the @code{glibc-utf8-locales} is smaller but
limited to a few UTF-8 locales.
-The @code{GUIX_LOCPATH} variable plays the exact same role as
-@code{LOCPATH} (@pxref{Locale Names, @code{LOCPATH},, libc, The GNU C
-Library Reference Manual}). However, since it is honored only by Guix's
-libc, and not by the libc provided by foreign distros, using
-@code{GUIX_LOCPATH} allows you to make sure the the foreign distro's
-programs will not end up loading incompatible locale data. This is
-important because the locale data format used by different libc versions
-may be incompatible.
-
-When both @code{GUIX_LOCPATH} and @code{LOCPATH} are defined, the latter
-takes precedence.
-
@subsection X11 Fonts
The majority of graphical applications use Fontconfig to locate and