Re: 01/01: services: Add SRFI-26 to Nix activation gexp.

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

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Mark,

Mark H Weaver wrote:
> guix-commits@gnu.org writes:
>
>> nckx pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit 2be6b5e2eea9ac084cc22281f64f7a089e46cdae
>> Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
>> Date:   Tue Jun 11 20:50:37 2019 +0200
>>
>>     services: Add SRFI-26 to Nix activation gexp.
>>     
>>     Fix the following fatal error on ‘guix system reconfigure’:
>>     

[Huge backtrace snipped, who adds stuff like that.]

>>     * gnu/services/nix.scm (nix-activation): Import and use 
>>     (srfi srfi-26).
>
> FWIW, I don't think we should normally have backtraces like this 
> in our
> commit log.  Certainly in this case, the error was sufficiently 
> obvious,
> and the backtrace doesn't add much useful information.

I included it because (this implies there was more deliberation 
involved than there was) the bug was reported on IRC, in an 
ephemeral paste.  For the record, I wouldn't have done so if 
there'd been a regular bug report.

> What do you think?

Nothing, really.  I have so many opinions already, I can't bring 
myself to have one on this matter.  Whatever you say :-)

Kind regards,

T G-R

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