Re: personal communications server

[L p R n d n <guix@lprndn.info>]

Hello,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>> I don't think we need the bash scripts, only services. From what I
>> read, we could provide a simple file like this and let users choose
>> their services:
>>
>> (define domain "mydomain.org")
>> ; and other common configuration options
>> …
>> (operating-system
>>   …
>>   (services
>>    (cons*
>>     ;; Uncomment for email
>>     ;(dovecot-service …)
>>     …
>>     ;; Uncomment for cgit
>>     ; (cgit-service …)
>>     …
>>     )))
>>
>> And then, you have a base with sane defaults for a defined purpose,
>> but can still tweak and change things.
>
> Or we could provide a procedure generating an operating system
> configuration.  The procedure’s arguments would be used to enable or
> disable certain services.

Just being curious here, why a whole operating system configuration? Why
not just a list of services?

Thanks,

L  p r n  d n  


> --
> Ricardo