Re: User shell: state or config?

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

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Ludo', all,

mikadoZero wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:

[…]

>> However, thinking more about it, I’m not sure if considering 
>> shells as
>> state is such a good idea, for several reasons:
>>
>>   1. It’s surprising that ‘guix system reconfigure’ doesn’t 
>>   actually
>>      change the shell, as Tanguy reported.
>
> As a new user of Guix System I was recently surprised by this as 
> well.
> I was expecting the shell to be managed by configuration.

As an old user, I agree ;-)

It's so surprising because we don't set ‘user-overridable 
defaults’ for state anywhere else.  You can't reason about your 
system the way you used to.  The config is a lie.

> All in all, I’m in favor of switching back to the previous 
> behavior:
> considering user shells as system config.  That’s a one-line 
> change in
> (gnu build accounts).

+1!

Kind regards,

T G-R

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