From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87po3xava2.fsf@elephly.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eymj9-0000bO-3o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:01:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eymj6-0005uy-1P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:01:03 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21142) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eymj5-0005uX-R7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:00:59 -0400 In-reply-to: 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" To: t_w_@freenet.de Cc: Guix-devel Thorsten Wilms writes: > Initially I thought creation of /tmp/.X11-unix should be tied to the > xorg-server-xwayland package, but since it is more generic: which > component should create that dir on Guix SD (based on what)? It is needed at run-time (because packages cannot create files outside of their store prefix at build time), so it should be created by a system service. A service is not the same as a shepherd service; we also have activation services that run once and only create a file or a directory. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net