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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: 34154@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34154] [PATCH] /etc/os-release
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:38:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y37cjruq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190121101740.GB11658@macbook41> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:17:40 +0200")

Hello!

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> Currently GuixSD ships without an '/etc/os-release' file. This simple
> service aims to correct this.

I’m not very enthusiastic.  :-)

I think /etc/os-release is a hack and the primary motivation behind it
was (I believe) to allow proprietary programs to make assumptions on the
file system layout, available services, etc. based on the distribution
running.

WDYT?  Did you encounter situations where lack of this file was causing
problems?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-22 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-21 10:17 [bug#34154] [PATCH] /etc/os-release Efraim Flashner
2019-01-22 21:38 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-01-23  7:20   ` Efraim Flashner
2019-01-23  9:59     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-23 11:37       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-23 14:32         ` ng0
2019-01-25  8:42           ` Ludovic Courtès
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2021-08-06  3:06 ` Maxim Cournoyer

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