From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: Customizing /etc Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 16:33:44 +0300 Message-ID: <87pof6s30n.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bmqtmbtf.fsf@gmail.com> <878tlv28gt.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:45244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBLYs-0003mZ-46 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 09:33:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBLYo-0007ql-Vf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 09:33:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878tlv28gt.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 17 May 2017 10:28:18 +0200") 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2017-05-17 10:28 +0200) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Kost 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=E2=80=99t forgotten about it, contrary to what one might thi= nk. > ;-) 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 >> 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=E2=80=99d better have the generic solution in place (= where > any service could be extended =E2=80=9Cat the end=E2=80=9D, i.e., after i= t=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98compose=E2=80=99 > and =E2=80=98extend=E2=80=99 procedures have been called) before people s= tart 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=E2=80=99m 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! --=20 Alex