From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Service refactoring Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:05:07 +0200 Message-ID: <878u8e1cr0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a8t3mc2v.fsf@netris.org> <87d1xyk45i.fsf@igalia.com> <87vbbn44zi.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <871te96k7o.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33453) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za4LW-0007s2-NA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:05:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za4LW-0006iI-0Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:05:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871te96k7o.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:48:11 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver skribis: > Will we ever encounter a case where two services need to be told about > each other? More generally, the "needs to know about" graph might > contain cycles. Even if there's not one today, we may encounter one > tomorrow. I don't see a compelling reason to restrict this structure to > be a DAG, and such a restriction may cause problems for us later. I can=E2=80=99t think of any pair of services that =E2=80=9Cextend=E2=80=9D= each other, but I=E2=80=99ll keep that in mind. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.