From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 01/01: services: Add ‘/usr/bin/env’ special file.
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 19:21:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l1p80zr.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mufhwhc6.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:54:33 +0200")
Hi Tobias,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
> Christopher,
>
> Christopher Baines 写道：
>> This seems to me like quite a big change, and I'd be interested in
>> knowing what your motivation was [1]?
>
> It's not, really. It's equivalent to the impure /bin/sh that Guix
> Systems already provide, but actually useful: ‘use #!/usr/bin/env, not
> #!/bin/sh!’ was already a mantra when I wrote my first shell script —
> and I'm not that young.
>
> There's no good argument for not being able to run the vast majority
> of well-written scripts, out of the box, on Guix Systems.
>
> I hope that's sufficient, but I don't think it needed to go in the
> commit message.
This should have been discussed more widely before pushing to 'master'.
It is not a new idea. We talked about it long ago, and decided that it
should *not* be included. I don't have the energy right now to restate
the arguments or find the old discussions.
Mark
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2019-09-06 10:36 ` 01/01: services: Add ‘/usr/bin/env’ special file Christopher Baines
2019-09-06 10:44 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-09-06 10:47 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-09-06 15:54 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-06 23:21 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2019-09-07 5:05 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-09-07 7:52 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2019-09-07 15:33 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-09-07 10:06 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-07 15:03 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-09-08 21:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-08 23:53 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-09-08 22:19 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-06 23:47 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-09-07 8:54 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-09-07 14:41 ` Marius Bakke
2019-09-07 17:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-08 11:55 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-09-08 18:31 ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-09-08 22:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-09 7:01 ` Bengt Richter
2019-09-09 8:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-09 1:37 ` Chris Marusich
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