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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 4cd1cc561d..68ee451efc 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -933,47 +933,31 @@ daemons on the same machine. @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 |