Re: Customizing /etc

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Alex,

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> This is almost the same message as:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/msg01570.html
>
> I mean this is a reminder on the subject.

Yes, I haven’t forgotten about it, contrary to what one might think.
;-)

> Ludovic, I think you suggested a good solution to a "Customizing
> /etc/profile" problem.  Since I will no longer be a blocker of
> <http://bugs.gnu.org/20255> after this fix, would you like to commit
> that change, or are there any issues with that?

In the message you cite above, I proposed to hack etc-service-type in
the same way we did for PAM.

But then I think we’d better have the generic solution in place (where
any service could be extended “at the end”, i.e., after it’s ‘compose’
and ‘extend’ procedures have been called) before people start relying on
the hack.  I even started working on it long ago, and then moved on to
something else.

I’m sorry that this has not happened yet.  I hope to resume work on it
after the release, but if someone wants to give it a shot, I will
definitely not block it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.