Re: 01/01: services: Add ‘/usr/bin/env’ special file.

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> writes:

> Christopher,
>
> Christopher Baines 写道：
>> This seems to me like quite a big change, and I'd be interested in
>> knowing what your motivation was [1]?
>
> It's not, really.  It's equivalent to the impure /bin/sh that Guix
> Systems already provide, but actually useful: ‘use #!/usr/bin/env, not
> #!/bin/sh!’ was already a mantra when I wrote my first shell script —
> and I'm not that young.
>
> There's no good argument for not being able to run the vast majority
> of well-written scripts, out of the box, on Guix Systems.
>
> I hope that's sufficient, but I don't think it needed to go in the
> commit message.

This should have been discussed more widely before pushing to 'master'.
It is not a new idea.  We talked about it long ago, and decided that it
should *not* be included.  I don't have the energy right now to restate
the arguments or find the old discussions.

       Mark