bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD

[Vincent Legoll]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I came with the attached patch, totally untested, probably wrong for some
>> cases...

My patch was heuristic, so bound to be wrong sometimes...

> We currently lack a way to specify whether the home directory should be
> created, which would be useful for ‘nobody’.

This is the alternative solution, specifying it, always right.

> So what about a patch along these lines instead?  It adds a
> ‘create-home-directory?’ field to <user-account> and sets it to #f for
> ‘nobody’.

LGTM, but do I understand correctly: the default value being false, we
will have to always specify the added param as true in system definitions ?

Why not the other way around, that would not need any modifications of
current configs.

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Vincent Legoll