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Subject: Re: what colour should the bikeshed have?
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Hi,

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 15:14, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> But even if we can=E2=80=99t do that, maybe we could just replace
> the very long =E2=80=9Cprocedure=E2=80=9D with the much shorter =E2=80=9C=
run=E2=80=9D:
>
>   process: sleep
>     packages "coreutils"
>     run # bash {
>       echo "Sleeping..."
>       sleep 10
>     }

[...]

> What do you think?  Is it worth trying / doing?

Nice !
Even, the keyword `run` seems  more talkative than `procedure`.


However, I am a bit lost. Does this process still work?

process: sleep
  packages "coreutils"
  run '(begin (display "Sleeping...\n")
                    (system* "sleep" "10"))

For consistency, why not?
  run # guile {
    blah
  }


And, is it better to declare explicitly "coreutils" as package input
when using bash?
Or implicitly? For example, if `run # python {}` is used then the
package input is implicitly python.
What do you think?


All the best,
simon