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From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Cc: 31885-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31885: Bug when running guix system reconfigure after recent guix pull
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:51:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16A8A43F-A3CC-422B-89F3-5E83F6D344F4@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878t7bvn61.fsf@lassieur.org>

Hi

On June 18, 2018 10:45:42 PM GMT+02:00, "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org> wrote:
>
>The guix-service-type service needs to be modified because it is
>already
>in %desktop-services, and you can't have it twice.

Got it! Now I understand the problem. 

>> ;				;; Should I use parenteses instead of "#:"?
>
>Things ending with '-configuration' are usually macros that can be used
>to instantiate the corresponding records.  They take arguments like
>'(field value)'.  '#:' is used when passing arguments to normal
>functions.

This I did not fully understand, will read up on macros in the guile manual and ask on help-guix or IRC if needed. 

>This is complex, but you can usually know what things expect by looking
>at the examples in the documentation.

I tried. Will try harder and propose changes with more examples and clarifications.  

>
>If you have similar issues, please email help-guix@gnu.org instead.

Understood. 

>Good luck, and don't hesitate to ask! :-)

Big thanks for taking the time to investigate this. 😀

-- 
Cheers Swedebugia

      reply	other threads:[~2018-06-18 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-18 19:24 bug#31885: Bug when running guix system reconfigure after recent guix pull swedebugia
2018-06-18 20:45 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-06-18 22:51   ` swedebugia [this message]

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