[bug#40105] [PATCH] gnu: Add wol.

[Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>]

hello,

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 1:55 PM Jakub Kądziołka <kuba@kadziolka.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 04:04:51PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> > I don't know if having multiple packages doing the same is OK or not.
> > Nor do I know if there are differences between this "wol" and the
> > already packaged "wakelan"...
>
> I don't think having multiple packages for doing something is
> necessarily bad.

Yep, me too, but I think I'll refrain from doing the other WoL packages...

> > +    (description "Tool to send a @code{magic} packet to wake another host
> > +on the network.  This must be enabled on the target host, usually in the
> > +BIOS.")
>
> If I may ask, what's the rationale behind putting "magic" in a @code tag
> here?

I think I copied that desc from somewhere else (maybe nixos) and it had quoting
around, and then guix lint told me to use @code instead, I probably should just
have removed the quotes... Nothing more than that, you can remove them if
you want to commit, or if you want I can resubmit without...

-- 
Vincent Legoll