From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Rename 'dmd' service to 'shepherd'. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:24:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87fuxot2eg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1453491872-6129-1-git-send-email-alezost@gmail.com> <1453491872-6129-4-git-send-email-alezost@gmail.com> <87a8nwzhn6.fsf@gnu.org> <874me48eyk.fsf@gmail.com> <87vb6k6xas.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48669) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aN5fp-0002Ma-TV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:24:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aN5fm-0006ay-Om for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:24:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87vb6k6xas.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:05:47 +0300") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Alex Kost skribis: [...] >> It seemed natural to me to rename 'dmd' service to 'shepherd' service. >> But I like 'root' more! So if people agree on naming the main service >> the 'root' instead of 'shepherd', I will send an updated patch. >> >> OTOH 'herd load root foo.scm' looks strange for me. Yeah, but =E2=80=98load dmd foo.scm=E2=80=99 also looks weird, after all. > Also in user init.scm we'll have "(action 'root 'daemonize)" which also > looks less preferable than "(action 'shepherd 'daemonize)" for me. So > now I don't really know what name I prefer :-) As long as it=E2=80=99s clear that it=E2=80=99s Smalltalk-style message pas= sing, and that =E2=80=98root=E2=80=99 is that special service, that=E2=80=99s fine, I= MO. Now that I think of it, since a service can provide several things, we could simply change dmd-service to have: #:provides '(root shepherd) Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99.