Re: thesis: guixsd should provide /usr/bin/env

[Jookia <166291@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 09:09:45AM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Hi :)
> 
> > Ludovic Courtès writes:
> >
> >> Should we add a --fhs or --/usr/bin/env option to simplify this?
> 
> I think /usr/bin/env is probably going to be insufficient -- lazy people
> like me are always going to be asking for more things :)  If we can
> manage to expose a profile at /usr, that would be better, I think.
> 
> On Mon 29 Feb 2016 19:11, Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
> 
> > Would this possibly screw us up on Hurd, where container support I don't
> > think exists?
> 
> In general, I think we can have the Hurd inform but not gate Guix
> features.
> 
> In this case, exposing a custom view of the file system to a sub-process
> is something that the Hurd should be able to do anyway :)

We can somewhat do this with containers already, perhaps it'd be best to have
hacks that run in containers?

> Andy