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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: personal communications server
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:19:10 +0200
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Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:

> I don't think we need the bash scripts, only services. From what I
> read, we could provide a simple file like this and let users choose
> their services:
>
> (define domain "mydomain.org")
> ; and other common configuration options
> =E2=80=A6
> (operating-system
>   =E2=80=A6
>   (services
>    (cons*
>     ;; Uncomment for email
>     ;(dovecot-service =E2=80=A6)
>     =E2=80=A6
>     ;; Uncomment for cgit
>     ; (cgit-service =E2=80=A6)
>     =E2=80=A6
>     )))
>
> And then, you have a base with sane defaults for a defined purpose,
> but can still tweak and change things.

Or we could provide a procedure generating an operating system
configuration.  The procedure=E2=80=99s arguments would be used to enable or
disable certain services.

--
Ricardo