From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add dovecot service
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:59:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151218005950.GA9461@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oadpkrrt.fsf@dustycloud.org>
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 09:38:31AM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> I know many of us want to get away from "stringly typed" or "string
> substitution" type solutions, and that's for very good reason. But if
> someone already has a config file that they have ready to go, that's
> good to support. And many of our config writers might be lossy... so
> while we should prefer schemey, composable interfaces, letting users
> just dump in a block of text is pretty important for many of these, I
> think.
I think that having the whole system in Scheme is awesome! But for the
case of configuring software created elsewhere, I think it makes sense
to be able to do things the "other way".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-18 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-14 21:09 [PATCH 1/2] gnu: dovecot: Add linux-pam to inputs Andy Wingo
2015-12-14 21:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add dovecot service Andy Wingo
2015-12-15 22:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-16 8:04 ` Andy Wingo
2015-12-16 23:14 ` Leo Famulari
2015-12-17 9:22 ` Andy Wingo
2015-12-17 14:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-17 15:38 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-18 0:59 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2015-12-18 9:26 ` Andy Wingo
2015-12-15 22:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: dovecot: Add linux-pam to inputs Ludovic Courtès
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