David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> Two patches attached. >> >> Unfortunately to use this you need to expand out %base-services to add >> upower to the udev-service form. Also you need the upower-service, >> obviously, and upower needs to be added to the dbus-service form as >> well. > > This isn't the first time I've seen people expanding out %base-services, > and I was also planning to do so for my OS config. I wonder if we > should create a 'make-base-services' procedure that accomodates the > common tweaks to the %base-services list: the MOTD, the list of packages > for dbus-service, etc.
This must be fixed, basically by making the return value of the foo-service procedures transparent and amenable to customization, filtering, etc. Now that we have extensible gexps, I think we may be able to “demonadify” those service procedures, by adding declarative forms corresponding to ‘text-file*’ and co. (just like ‘local-file’ is the declarative equivalent of the ‘interned-file’ procedure.) I’m not yet sure this is the right thing, but it’s appealing. Thoughts? Ludo’.
