Re: On the naming of System and Home services modules.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> skribis:

> I think it would be better to put home services in the same modules as
> system services, i.e., (gnu services mcron) would contain the Mcron
> service for Guix System and the Mcron service for Guix Home.  That would
> also mean that we wouldn’t have to export ‘job-files’ and
> ‘shepherd-schedule-action’[1].

Ah true, hmm.  For now it’s okay to export these two things IMO.

Also, more generally, we have to make sure there are no circular
dependencies.  So Home modules can depend on anything else, but System
modules should not depend on Home modules.

> I think using (gnu home services …) would only make sense if we already
> had (gnu system services …).

As I wrote before, I agree in principle, but we’re not going to rename
those modules.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.