From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: thesis: guixsd should provide /usr/bin/env Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:09:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87si0aei0m.fsf@igalia.com> References: <874mgmti7b.fsf@igalia.com> <87h9ki9dmz.fsf@gnu.org> <87fv01nb8b.fsf@igalia.com> <87d1v4ixeh.fsf@gnu.org> <87wppnl73s.fsf@dustycloud.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]:37880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aafNS-0005RE-Vw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 03:09:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aafNO-0007xg-2A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 03:09:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wppnl73s.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:11:19 -0800") 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: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi :) > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> Should we add a --fhs or --/usr/bin/env option to simplify this? I think /usr/bin/env is probably going to be insufficient -- lazy people like me are always going to be asking for more things :) If we can manage to expose a profile at /usr, that would be better, I think. On Mon 29 Feb 2016 19:11, Christopher Allan Webber = writes: > Would this possibly screw us up on Hurd, where container support I don't > think exists? In general, I think we can have the Hurd inform but not gate Guix features. In this case, exposing a custom view of the file system to a sub-process is something that the Hurd should be able to do anyway :) Andy