From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 45836@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45836: cups-service-type duplicates lp group
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:06:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfbfaf9013c68f0cee70a476f9272d4048837a11.camel@student.tugraz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kjlcbz1.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Ludo,
Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2021, 12:28 +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Hi Leo,
>
> Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> skribis:
>
> > it has come to my attention due to the recent reporting of #45830
> > and
> > some conversation in IRC, that cups-service-type adds an lp group,
> > which is already defined in %base-groups. Since both share the
> > same
> > definition, this is not too big an issue, but it prohibits us from
> > using a hard error for #45770.
> >
> > I can currently think of two solutions: Either remove the lp group
> > from
> > cups-service-type or remove it from base-groups. Neither sounds
> > particularly awesome. Perhaps we could also delete identical
> > duplicates before asserting that there are none for #45770, but
> > that
> > sounds like a little much effort. Any ideas how else to solve
> > this?
>
> I’d be pragmatic here:
>
> 1. Ignore duplicates that are identical (don’t report them).
Is that still not a problem, because either definition could change?
> 2. Remove “lp” from %base-groups since it has no use without CUPS
> (right?).
That's probably true, but I fear, that some have already added "lp" to
their config.scm. Would that cause issues? We could also add CUPS to
%base-services or %desktop-services in some way, but that would
probably cause issues with configurations, that already have it.
Regards,
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-13 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-13 1:09 bug#45836: cups-service-type duplicates lp group Leo Prikler
2021-01-13 11:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-13 12:06 ` Leo Prikler [this message]
2021-01-14 11:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-14 13:06 ` bug#45836: [PATCH] services: Let cups-service-type reuse base " Leo Prikler
2021-01-16 18:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-16 19:49 ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-18 14:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-20 8:16 ` Leo Prikler
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