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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 01:49:09 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>, 24275@debbugs.gnu.org, John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I came with the attached patch, totally untested, probably wrong for som=
e
>> cases...

My patch was heuristic, so bound to be wrong sometimes...

> We currently lack a way to specify whether the home directory should be
> created, which would be useful for =E2=80=98nobody=E2=80=99.

This is the alternative solution, specifying it, always right.

> So what about a patch along these lines instead?  It adds a
> =E2=80=98create-home-directory?=E2=80=99 field to <user-account> and sets=
 it to #f for
> =E2=80=98nobody=E2=80=99.

LGTM, but do I understand correctly: the default value being false, we
will have to always specify the added param as true in system definitions ?

Why not the other way around, that would not need any modifications of
current configs.

--=20
Vincent Legoll