Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Thorsten Wilms <address@hidden> writes:

> Initially I thought creation of /tmp/.X11-unix should be tied to the
> xorg-server-xwayland package, but since it is more generic: which
> component should create that dir on Guix SD (based on what)?

It is needed at run-time (because packages cannot create files outside
of their store prefix at build time), so it should be created by a
system service.  A service is not the same as a shepherd service; we
also have activation services that run once and only create a file or a
directory.

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Ricardo

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