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From: ng0 <ng0@n0.is>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: auto-instantiate services with a default value
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:16:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180109101618.zqzc2qw526m32gyx@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3l7wgf5.fsf@gnu.org>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-09 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09  9:05 Proposal: auto-instantiate services with a default value Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-09 10:16 ` ng0 [this message]
2018-01-09 10:59 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-09 12:25   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-09 13:42     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-09 20:42       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-10  6:56 ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-20 23:26 ` Ludovic Courtès

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