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Subject: [bug#36404] [PATCH 0/6] Add 'guix deploy'.
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zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) skribis:

> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>
>> In the future I think it would be good to make this extensible as
>> well. Dispatching on a symbol means that Guix must itself provide a
>> fixed set of possible environment types. If we made this an extensible
>> structure, akin to services or something, we could allow for more
>> flexibility in the future. Thoughts for the future, but not a blocker
>> on this patch.
>
> +1. Initially, I thought the service types _were_ symbols, but I see now
> that they're actually procedures. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll see
> about implementing environment types similarly in my revised patch set,
> since I think that's a change that we'd want to make before any other
> environment types come into existence.

It=E2=80=99s a pattern similar to that of <build-system> for packages.  I t=
hink
it should provide the flexibility and extensibility we need.

Ludo=E2=80=99.