From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH] system: Remove spec->file-system. Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 00:23:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20161202183716.25174-1-david@craven.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCxBR-0005Ez-Tg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:24:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCxBO-0006xc-QC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:24:01 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::232]:35213) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCxBO-0006xU-IR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:23:58 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-x232.google.com with SMTP id n204so294875125qke.2 for ; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:23:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20161202183716.25174-1-david@craven.ch> 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" To: guix-devel The reason I'm suggesting to remove this function, is because it seems like any case one would want to use it, one should not be using it. There is a separation of gnu/system and gnu/build and a spec->file-system function encourages people to try using the in the build part. I think that it's a "code smell" as the one instance where it was used is dubious.