Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages.

[John Darrington]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
     
     > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 04:28:08PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
     >           
     >           If so, would it work to just do:
     >           
     >             "--enable-fs-paths-default=/run/current-system/profile/sbin"
     >           
     >           ?
     >           
     >           That would only work on GuixSD, but Guix???s ???mount??? is 
certainly not very
     >           useful on foreign distros.
     >      
     >      That would certainly be a solution easier to do.   
     >      But doesn't it mean that we have a "functionally impure" system?
     >      
     >
     > Also, it would only work if nfs-utils was installed in the current 
system profile,
     > which need not be the case.  It might be installed only in root's 
profile or I might 
     > want to see what happens if I use an alternative version of nfs-utils.
     
     That ???mount??? can invoke ???mount.nfs??? looks like a convenience to 
me, not
     something highly critical.

Well it's critical if "mount -a" is going to work, and thus if NFS filesystems 
(such as /home in
many networks) can be automatically mounted at boot time.
     
     I would say that dynamic composition (???mount??? looking up 
???mount.nfs??? &
     co. in $PATH) is OK in this case.  The NFS service in GuixSD could
     extend ???profile-service-type??? such that ???nfs-utils??? is indeed in 
the
     system profile.
     
Ok If you think it's acceptable I'll push a change with just the
"--enable-fs-paths-default=/run/current-system/profile/sbin" option for now.  
If it
turns out not to be good enough then we can rethink it later.

J'

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