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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: 20720@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20720: Inconsistency in text fields for 'operating-system'
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:58:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egludumx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)

Hello, this is not a bug report, but a feature request.

I see some inconsistency in specifying text / text files in an
operating-system declaration:

- ‘sudoers’ and ‘issue’ want plain strings;

- ‘hosts-file’ and ‘mingetty-service’ (#:motd argument) want a
  'text-file' monadic procedure;

- some other services (‘syslog-service’, ‘lirc-service’, ...) want file
  names (of the configuration files).

As for me, I prefer the latter variant.  But I think the best would be
to add support for any of the above possibilities for all services or
operating-system fields.

-- 
Alex

             reply	other threads:[~2015-06-02 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-02 14:58 Alex Kost [this message]
2015-06-03  9:52 ` bug#20720: Inconsistency in text fields for 'operating-system' Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-04 14:43   ` Alex Kost
2015-06-05 12:30     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-05 13:27       ` Alex Kost
2015-06-05 20:47         ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-06 17:38           ` Alex Kost
2015-06-07 15:16             ` Ludovic Courtès

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