From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: reconfiguring Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:33:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87eflok4sy.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87h8qkkard.fsf@elephly.net> <87sha4wvrk.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elhVx-0001jW-Os for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:49:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elhVu-0007uK-Mu for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:49:21 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elhVu-0007th-Bc for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:49:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <87sha4wvrk.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Carlo Zancanaro Cc: help-guix Carlo Zancanaro writes: > On Tue, Feb 13 2018, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> That=E2=80=99s a misunderstanding. All of the things in the =E2=80=9Cse= rvices=E2=80=9D >> field of >> your operating-system configuration are =E2=80=9Csystem services=E2=80= =9D, so >> all of >> them get updated. > > Should we think about changing the name for "system services"? The > confusion with Shepherd services seems really easy to make. The > Wikipedia article for GuixSD makes the same mistake, but I haven't > had the chance to fix it yet. Maybe we should call them "system > extensions", or "mixins", or something like that? I would very much like to find a new term for them, because usually the second thing I say about system services is that the naming is unfortunate and collides with what people think is a shepherd service. I=E2=80=99m not fond of =E2=80=9Cmixins=E2=80=9D (this reminds me of the = =E2=80=9Ctraits=E2=80=9D-like concept in Ruby classes), nor do I really like =E2=80=9Csystem extensions=E2=80=9D,= but I do think that avoiding the naming conflict would be worth a bike-shed discussion :) -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net