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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org>
Subject: bug#32132: daemon store names can't start with a dot
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:20:23 +0200
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To: ludo@gnu.org, 32132@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>, 32111-done@debbugs.gnu.org

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Cl=C3=A9ment,
>
> Cl=C3=A9ment Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:
>
>> Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can you provide some context why this is necessary, maybe even
>>> in the commit message?
>>
>> It's necessary when you want to package a program whose source looks
>> like file:///home/foo/.bar.
>
> I=E2=80=99d rather not make this kind of change.  In general, I think we =
should
> be very conservative about changes to the daemon and its protocol,
> because that=E2=80=99s the common denominator of all the versions of Guix.
>
> If we change something like it, then we=E2=80=99ll get subtle breakage de=
pending
> on the version of the daemon in use.
>
> WDYT?

Okay, let's abandon this then :-)

CCing bug-guix because I still think it's a bug; please close it if you
disagree.

Cl=C3=A9ment