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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 X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -5.51 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx13.migadu.com X-Spam-Score: -5.51 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 383AB16CBC X-TUID: tRZ9vdLRC1WR > In the systemd realm, there are different types of services, I think one > is called "one-shot" which is effectively quite similar to the types of > services guix has... they do something once, and there is no running > daemon. So, for better or worse, guix is not so far from one of the most > widespread and commonly used systems here... executed at each boot vs. executed when compiling the system (i.e. at diffe= rent stages, as in 'staged computation'). it's a bit like using the same word to describe macros and functions in lis= p: yes, deep down they are both just functions, but they are different enou= gh to warrant a different name to facilitate a more efficient human compreh= ension. -- =E2=80=A2 attila lendvai =E2=80=A2 PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- =E2=80=9CThe nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation= between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighti= ng done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.=E2=80=9D =09=E2=80=94 Sir William Francis Butler (1838=E2=80=931910)