From: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
Cc: "Felix Lechner" <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>,
"Edouard Klein" <edou@rdklein.fr>,
guix-devel@gnu.org, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
"Josselin Poiret" <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
Subject: Re: Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:11:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <laKb0HHS2tg6hOR-hyovVeYHYCfpVcevAeXKVkm038P0YNvy2J3rjvPeS7n5Wk4BBJX3D-UUsAO-L-yHEdHJ_mY4Ldsn9uQJYKgnOZ133jM=@lendvai.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <847574cb19328afb1bb0a25cfd05d57ef36a1f6a.camel@gmail.com>
> Am Donnerstag, dem 01.02.2024 um 20:30 +0000 schrieb Attila Lendvai:
>
> > for an average unix user a service is a process that is running in
> > the backgroud, doing stuff mostly without any user interaction. you
> > can try to argue this away, but i'm afraid that this is the state of
> > things.
>
> Which is exactly what etc-service-type does. It symlinks stuff to /etc
> without user interaction.
we can spend our life honing in on a satisfying definition, but let it be enough that what is commonly understood as a service has an active component (see 'run' in my definition); i.e. it has a temporal dimension.
but honestly? it felt silly to even provide a definition in my mail. we either live in a different universe, or you're just focused on justify the status quo. whichever is the case, we have reached a dead end, because essentially, this is aesthetics.
but anyway, i gave my feedback, and as i don't have the authority to lobby for renaming core guix abstractions, i'm out.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-02 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-23 8:06 A friendlier API for operating-system declarations Edouard Klein
2023-03-23 18:48 ` Josselin Poiret
2023-03-23 20:23 ` Edouard Klein
2023-03-23 21:05 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-04-13 9:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-18 14:37 ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-24 21:43 ` Syntactic Diabetes (was Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations) Edouard Klein
2023-11-24 22:50 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-25 20:14 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-11-26 5:36 ` Michal Atlas
2023-11-26 16:49 ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-26 18:32 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-26 20:46 ` Edouard Klein
2023-11-27 21:09 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-11-29 20:12 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-11-29 23:39 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-11-30 11:16 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-12-01 18:18 ` Michal Atlas
2024-02-01 13:29 ` Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes) Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-02-01 19:43 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-02-01 20:30 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-01 20:46 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2024-02-02 20:11 ` Attila Lendvai [this message]
2024-02-01 21:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-02-02 19:36 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-02 20:21 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-02-02 21:25 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-02-02 0:03 ` Introducing Guix "Features"! Carlo Zancanaro
2024-02-18 15:07 ` Introducing Guix "Features"! (Was: Syntactic Diabetes) Edouard Klein
2023-12-09 10:12 ` Syntactic Diabetes (was Re: A friendlier API for operating-system declarations) Ludovic Courtès
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