Re: Proposal: auto-instantiate services with a default value

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Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> Hello Guix!
> 
> Currently on GuixSD, users have to explicitly specify all the services
> they need, recursively.  For instance, if you add:
> 
>   (service rottlog-service-type)
> 
> to your ‘services’ field, you also need to add:
> 
>   (service mcron-service-type)
> 
> because the former happens to require the latter.  If you don’t do that,
> you get an error message (see ‘fold-services’ in (gnu services)), and
> then you go back to your config and add that line.
> 
> This was intentional, but it’s annoying, especially when considering
> higher-level, complex services—imagine a MediaGoblin service: you
> wouldn’t want to manually specify a dozen services that, to you, are an
> implementation detail you’d rather ignore.
> 
> We discussed some time ago the possibility to automatically instantiate
> services.  Now that service types have default value, I think it’s a
> viable approach: if a service is required, and *if* it provides a
> default value, then we can automatically instantiate it.
> 
> So in the example above, you’d just specify ‘rottlog-service-type’ and
> an ‘mcron-service-type’ would be automatically added if it’s not already
> there.
> 
> How does that sound?
> 
> Ludo’.

Sounds alright to me.

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