Re: Build machine sysadmin support

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Craven <address@hidden> skribis:

>> Also, all the sysadmin work will happen in a bunch of Scheme files,
>> which means that everyone can now contribute to sysadmin, without
>> necessarily having shell access to the machines.  No excuses!  :-)
>
> Is there a reason why this isn't in gnu/system/examples?

It’s mostly that it’s a quick hack that is specific to this build
machine use case.

But yeah, it may be that a generalized form of these modules could end
up in Guix proper, either as examples or as an API.  I think we need to
gain experience with it before we can decide what to do.

Ludo’.