|
From: | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
Subject: | Re: User shell: state or config? |
Date: | Thu, 25 Apr 2019 20:03:32 +0200 |
Ludo', all, mikadoZero wrote:
Ludovic Courtès writes:
[…]
However, thinking more about it, I’m not sure if considering shells asstate is such a good idea, for several reasons:1. It’s surprising that ‘guix system reconfigure’ doesn’t actuallychange the shell, as Tanguy reported.As a new user of Guix System I was recently surprised by this as well.I was expecting the shell to be managed by configuration.
As an old user, I agree ;-)It's so surprising because we don't set ‘user-overridable defaults’ for state anywhere else. You can't reason about your system the way you used to. The config is a lie.
All in all, I’m in favor of switching back to the previous behavior: considering user shells as system config. That’s a one-line change in(gnu build accounts).
+1! Kind regards, T G-R
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |