From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: 20720@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20720: Inconsistency in text fields for 'operating-system'
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:58:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egludumx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello, this is not a bug report, but a feature request.
I see some inconsistency in specifying text / text files in an
operating-system declaration:
- ‘sudoers’ and ‘issue’ want plain strings;
- ‘hosts-file’ and ‘mingetty-service’ (#:motd argument) want a
'text-file' monadic procedure;
- some other services (‘syslog-service’, ‘lirc-service’, ...) want file
names (of the configuration files).
As for me, I prefer the latter variant. But I think the best would be
to add support for any of the above possibilities for all services or
operating-system fields.
--
Alex
next reply other threads:[~2015-06-02 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-02 14:58 Alex Kost [this message]
2015-06-03 9:52 ` bug#20720: Inconsistency in text fields for 'operating-system' Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-04 14:43 ` Alex Kost
2015-06-05 12:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-05 13:27 ` Alex Kost
2015-06-05 20:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-06 17:38 ` Alex Kost
2015-06-07 15:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
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