Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 04:28:08PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
>           
>           If so, would it work to just do:
>           
>             "--enable-fs-paths-default=/run/current-system/profile/sbin"
>           
>           ?
>           
>           That would only work on GuixSD, but Guix???s ???mount??? is certainly not very
>           useful on foreign distros.
>      
>      That would certainly be a solution easier to do.   
>      But doesn't it mean that we have a "functionally impure" system?
>      
>
> Also, it would only work if nfs-utils was installed in the current system profile,
> which need not be the case.  It might be installed only in root's profile or I might 
> want to see what happens if I use an alternative version of nfs-utils.

That ‘mount’ can invoke ‘mount.nfs’ looks like a convenience to me, not
something highly critical.

I would say that dynamic composition (‘mount’ looking up ‘mount.nfs’ &
co. in $PATH) is OK in this case.  The NFS service in GuixSD could
extend ‘profile-service-type’ such that ‘nfs-utils’ is indeed in the
system profile.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.