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[bug#55653] [PATCH] guix: Add syntactic sugar for profile generation.
From: |
Liliana Marie Prikler |
Subject: |
[bug#55653] [PATCH] guix: Add syntactic sugar for profile generation. |
Date: |
Tue, 31 May 2022 20:07:09 +0200 |
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Evolution 3.42.1 |
Hi,
Am Dienstag, dem 31.05.2022 um 15:47 +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> So the goal is to make things slightly more concise than:
>
> (profile (content (packages->manifest (list …))))
>
> right?
More or less. However, I also feel that "content" is somewhat
confusing if it were to be user-facing so I added a syntactic manifest
noop as well.
> We don’t have syntactic sugar like this elsewhere, and I would prefer
> to remain consistent here.
We do have origin sha256, which sets both hash-algo and hash-content,
so it's not unprecedented in my opinion.
> However, if that helps, we could have a procedure, like:
>
> (define (packages->profile name packages)
> (profile (name name) …))
>
> Thoughts?
I do think syntactic constructors feel better here, because the end
goal would be embedding things in (thunked) configuration fields.
Having a procedure might be acceptable, but feels more clunky in the
context of Guix.
Chees