On 2020-03-17, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every
> day.
>
> I think we can improve the situation.
>
> First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention
> it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users thi
Hi,
Leo Famulari skribis:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 04:37:05PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Thoughts? How do other distros deal with this? Are we missing some
>> trick to compress locale data?
>
> I noticed that downloading glibc-locales, it's 10.8 MiB. On disk, the
> store item is ~220 Mi
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 03:43:32PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> I poked around a bit. Debian achieves the smaller size by referring to
> data rather than copying it around, and only including delta changes.
> Hopefully we can copy their technique.
We are discussing it on #guix. I think that Debian
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 04:37:05PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Thoughts? How do other distros deal with this? Are we missing some
> trick to compress locale data?
I noticed that downloading glibc-locales, it's 10.8 MiB. On disk, the
store item is ~220 MiB. I'm not sure how guix size calculat
Hello,
Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2020. márc. 21., Szo
16:37):
> Hi Leo,
>
> Leo Famulari skribis:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 04:07:22PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> As for ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ vs. ‘glibc-locales’: the reason for choosing
> >> the former by default over the lat
Hi Leo,
Leo Famulari skribis:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 04:07:22PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> As for ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ vs. ‘glibc-locales’: the reason for choosing
>> the former by default over the latter is size (14 MiB vs. 917 MiB).
>
> Oof! I was going by the manual, which says 110 M
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 04:07:22PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> As for ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ vs. ‘glibc-locales’: the reason for choosing
> the former by default over the latter is size (14 MiB vs. 917 MiB).
Oof! I was going by the manual, which says 110 MiB. That does change
things...
Ludo', Thorsten, Leo,
Ludovic Courtès 写道：
Well, we still need to be able to install locales somehow,
right? :-)
This isn't about removing all locale packages, just the
poorly-named -utf8- variant.
Thorsten Wilms 写道：
smaller than glibc-locales, but still sufficient for many cases.
Is that
Hello!
Leo Famulari skribis:
> Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every
> day.
>
> I think we can improve the situation.
>
> First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention
> it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users think
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:43 -0400
Leo Famulari wrote:
> First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention
> it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users think they
> had to install it in order to get UTF-8 support. Everyone should be
> using glibc-locales.
I
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 04:28:43PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every
> day.
>
> I think we can improve the situation.
>
> First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention
> it in the manual section Applicati
Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every
day.
I think we can improve the situation.
First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention
it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users think they
had to install it in order to get UTF-8
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