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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1668697310; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=NU2/qK5rpmRACdag6bcRd77eI4qT/rZKdHohpjwY8OU=; b=Q1cXnoP0HdI5rHRcRHqxDUxZP2QVjAOcuiykcqDaFZqq/jvA/5K3D+WRK8FxXfchXVgpaM R0/Eof8euyT5ZSMClkzrLEE5IUsgbaAdX+T8Wch9MCwNGkKvqhCFb+qTPh43oBzXyIgxbY 2kj7KgbuDBRTI2uSGF490p70C/Mrb6kOKNZg9iu/u0F82UKfTBdW+w1Djgx697G1xSwMzX XC6Nx6puJMGq5cqWpyyKgpR9usuReEiMhlclC0L4aQ4k5ty28jJTUaec5982rfIwGjKYr/ VivrTLrEW7+0Z4rhFwzU225R38TnTNxclrxkeA448XhtjIRmq8d0+NvC+ApoPg== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1668697310; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=Wwk7oeBV1FAfdRy/D+Y7igbtI82/37dFNGgefdPSicN6Z9uhbdBVll6mVgszJoCiD94ASw PcqS4+odsT0D8fgbCa2mGbSM7YWgQwnsROoxWO2gAEcB2D4vndN0TmsNcZzs0Q7zr3+R/1 MjXEldzn3SYAZVnhcWBaE1EjQIxhdkh2dYvJjbZDn/2CmGLDNgNJ+vpO0QfX1jcpyVY7gq qiiTb4VgTDto8PT/zt07Hae1xXrW5FKgFG08UlRrnZBFTdV31Ji0sITzlevxX8EbF6d848 PBTwp54p9uWICj2mS+2FoMNKXTuYtryVVwAbuzVISCoSER3eUurlJwqU/MApbQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gnu.org header.s=fencepost-gnu-org header.b=f0ZhUGIj; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -4.23 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gnu.org header.s=fencepost-gnu-org header.b=f0ZhUGIj; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 1966712871 X-Spam-Score: -4.23 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: 8m/VTCv0UkyB Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > make-essential-device-nodes does not seem to have any callers. Can we > remove it? Looks like we can remove it. I think it became almost useless with commit cc0e575a94a4e22a0bf2bf1b0c7b0514f1c1fbb5 in (2015), and unused since commit 8423c2d3097da2d9d25b6f56c1971ac7147d3ad9 (2020). Mathieu, no objections? Or can it theoretically be used with =E2=80=98initialize-root-partition=E2=80=99? Ludo=E2=80=99.