Hi, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > >> * gnu/packages/base.scm (make-glibc-locales, make-glibc-utf8-locales): New >> procedures. >> (glibc-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-locales. >> (glibc-utf8-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-utf8-locales. >> (glibc-locales-2.27, glibc-utf8-locales-2.27): New variables. > > This is for the benefit of people who run Guix on top of a foreign > distro. On a Guix system people can simply use the “locale-libcs” field > of their operating system declaration, but on a foreign distro there is > no way to install a locales package for older versions of glibc. > > This patch generates variants for version 2.27 and overrides the name so > that both “glibc-locales” and “glibc-locales-2.27” can be installed into > the same profile. (Without the name override that’s not possible.) Adding the packages makes sense to me. I don’t like the package name trick, but I don’t have a better solution. Perhaps we could have a special property to explicitly allow for several versions of this package in the same profile (say ‘allow-multiple-versions?’), but that’s a bit more work. Thanks, Ludo’.
