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diff --git a/doc/builders/packages/locales.section.md b/doc/builders/packages/locales.section.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e5a03700481 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/builders/packages/locales.section.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# Locales {#locales} + +To allow simultaneous use of packages linked against different versions of `glibc` with different locale archive formats Nixpkgs patches `glibc` to rely on `LOCALE_ARCHIVE` environment variable. + +On non-NixOS distributions this variable is obviously not set. This can cause regressions in language support or even crashes in some Nixpkgs-provided programs. The simplest way to mitigate this problem is exporting the `LOCALE_ARCHIVE` variable pointing to `${glibcLocales}/lib/locale/locale-archive`. The drawback (and the reason this is not the default) is the relatively large (a hundred MiB) size of the full set of locales. It is possible to build a custom set of locales by overriding parameters `allLocales` and `locales` of the package. |