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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#20720: Inconsistency in text fields for 'operating-system'
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:58:46 +0300
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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:

- =E2=80=98sudoers=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98issue=E2=80=99 want plain strings;

- =E2=80=98hosts-file=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98mingetty-service=E2=80=99 (#:mo=
td argument) want a
  'text-file' monadic procedure;

- some other services (=E2=80=98syslog-service=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98lirc-serv=
ice=E2=80=99, ...) 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.

--=20
Alex