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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Scanner: mx13.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -3.94 X-Spam-Score: -3.94 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 806AD67F84 X-TUID: zplcXd6aOrm1 Attila Lendvai writes: > if you demand that e.g. all services accepted into guix have a > configuration entry for every possible config field, and that the > documentation of these fields are duplicated into the guix > codebase... then whatever is included into guix will have a 100% > coverage. this is what is seen. This is not what I argued for. We also have had a couple of service configurations that only provided options for a handful of options, relegating all other possible options to a free text escape hatch. There=E2=80=99s no point in talking percentages. --=20 Ricardo