Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Separate util-linux into three packages.

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:

[...]

>      > Also, it would only work if nfs-utils was installed in the current 
> system profile,
>      > which need not be the case.  It might be installed only in root's 
> profile or I might 
>      > want to see what happens if I use an alternative version of nfs-utils.
>      
>      That ???mount??? can invoke ???mount.nfs??? looks like a convenience to 
> me, not
>      something highly critical.
>
> Well it's critical if "mount -a" is going to work, and thus if NFS 
> filesystems (such as /home in
> many networks) can be automatically mounted at boot time.

GuixSD doesn’t use the ‘mount’ command to mount file systems so that
shouldn’t have any influence.

>      I would say that dynamic composition (???mount??? looking up 
> ???mount.nfs??? &
>      co. in $PATH) is OK in this case.  The NFS service in GuixSD could
>      extend ???profile-service-type??? such that ???nfs-utils??? is indeed in 
> the
>      system profile.
>      
> Ok If you think it's acceptable I'll push a change with just the
> "--enable-fs-paths-default=/run/current-system/profile/sbin" option for now.  
> If it
> turns out not to be good enough then we can rethink it later.

Yes, I agree.

1,093 packages depend on util-linux.  Per the strategy outlined at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00933.html>
this could go to ‘staging’ but I think this should go to ‘core-updates’
which we’ll reopen to fix <http://bugs.gnu.org/24703>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.