Re: Improving build-time checks for kernel module configuration + two other discussion points

[Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>]

> > My idea for how to mitigate this is adding some sort of extensible
> > service where services can register necessary kernel configuration
> > settings. When the config option is unset, a build-time error is raised.
> 
> 
> That sounds good to me, although I am not sure why it should be a
> runtime service; it seems like a part of the kernel package build
> process, but maybe this is just a difference in choice of words? Or I
> could be missing something entirely!


the meaning of 'service' in the guix context is quite different than what that word means to most people today.

you should think of it as a component of the declarative OS definition (as opposed to as a runtime agent that responds to requests).

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