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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 7596b0567b..1e8b23ad7e 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1867,8 +1867,24 @@ $ export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale Note that the @code{glibc-locales} package contains data for all the locales supported by the GNU@tie{}libc and weighs in at around -917@tie{}MiB@. Alternatively, the @code{glibc-utf8-locales} is smaller but -limited to a few UTF-8 locales. +930@tie{}MiB@footnote{The size of the @code{glibc-locales} package is +reduced down to about 213@tie{}MiB with store deduplication and further +down to about 67@tie{}MiB when using a zstd-compressed Btrfs file +system.}. If you only need a few locales, you can define your custom +locales package via the @code{make-glibc-utf8-locales} procedure from +the @code{(gnu packages base)} module. The following example defines a +package containing the various Canadian UTF-8 locales known to the +GNU@tie{}libc, that weighs around 14@tie{}MiB: + +@lisp +(use-modules (gnu packages base)) + +(define my-glibc-locales + (make-glibc-utf8-locales + glibc + #:locales (list "en_CA" "fr_CA" "ik_CA" "iu_CA" "shs_CA") + #:name "glibc-canadian-utf8-locales")) +@end lisp The @env{GUIX_LOCPATH} variable plays a role similar to @env{LOCPATH} (@pxref{Locale Names, @env{LOCPATH},, libc, The GNU C Library Reference |