Re: Customizing /etc

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Courtès (2017-05-17 10:28 +0200) wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> This is almost the same message as:
>>
>>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/msg01570.html
>>
>> I mean this is a reminder on the subject.
>
> Yes, I haven’t forgotten about it, contrary to what one might think.
> ;-)

Oh, great!  (you're right, that's what I thought :-))

>> Ludovic, I think you suggested a good solution to a "Customizing
>> /etc/profile" problem.  Since I will no longer be a blocker of
>> <http://bugs.gnu.org/20255> after this fix, would you like to commit
>> that change, or are there any issues with that?
>
> In the message you cite above, I proposed to hack etc-service-type in
> the same way we did for PAM.
>
> But then I think we’d better have the generic solution in place (where
> any service could be extended “at the end”, i.e., after it’s ‘compose’
> and ‘extend’ procedures have been called) before people start relying on
> the hack.  I even started working on it long ago, and then moved on to
> something else.

Wow, a general solution for any service sounds really great!

> I’m sorry that this has not happened yet.  I hope to resume work on it
> after the release, but if someone wants to give it a shot, I will
> definitely not block it.

I see :-)  No hurry, I just was a bit concerned that your solution was
lost, but now I know that it's not, thanks!

-- 
Alex