Re: /run/setuid-programs via the Shepherd?

[Juliana Sims <juli@incana.org>]

Hi Felix,
> 
> ... we must hardcode some paths to /run/setuid-program/... as
> in this yet-to-be-accepted patch for OpenSMTPd. [1]
...

 > [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71613

Oh, this is quite a tricky issue... I'm opposed to packaging software 
in Guix in such a way as to rely on the conventions of a system 
installation -- or even to assume what software a user chooses for 
their particular system installation -- because that undermines the 
core principles of statelessness and user freedom. I don't know enough 
about this problem to offer good solutions, honestly. For the 
aforementioned reasons, I don't think the Shepherd is the place to 
solve it. Or rather, if the problem is solved there (no reason it can't 
be), there will still need to be accomodations for those who don't want 
to rely on Shepherd.

> P.S. Your mail headers included "Reply-To: 
> 87plssoj2z.fsf@lease-up.com";
> I took the liberty to copy you on this message.

Thanks! I don't know how email headers work XD I subscribe to the 
guix-devel digest so when I want to respond to a particular message, I 
copy over the "to" and "cc" and "subject" manually and then I go grab 
the message ID of the particular message I'm replying to and put that 
in Geary's "reply to" field in the hopes of not breaking threading. 
Does this not work properly? (feel free to reply out-of-band if there's 
more to be said)

-Juli