From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: Build machine sysadmin support Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:42:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bn0pp58b.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbS5d-0000b8-RG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 08:43:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbS5U-00045j-Ao for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 08:43:01 -0400 Received: from mail-yb0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c09::234]:33415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbS5T-00045V-4E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 08:42:52 -0400 Received: by mail-yb0-x234.google.com with SMTP id a88so3243945ybi.0 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 05:42:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bn0pp58b.fsf@gnu.org> 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 Cc: guix-sysadmin@gnu.org, Nacho Gonzalez > Also, all the sysadmin work will happen in a bunch of Scheme files, > which means that everyone can now contribute to sysadmin, without > necessarily having shell access to the machines. No excuses! :-) Is there a reason why this isn't in gnu/system/examples? I think that this is a common use case and would be nice to have it there, and enable it in gnu/system/install.scm as an out-of-the-box experience.