Re: On the naming of System and Home services modules.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:

> Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in> writes:
>
> […]
>
>>> I would very much like to have these modules renamed to (gnu home
>>> services …) quickly.  WDYT?  Could the two of you take a look?
>>
>> Doable.
>>
>> What about moving home services to (gnu services ...)?
>>
>> It's a little harder, because we probably will need to adjust `guix
>> system search` and `guix home search`, but other than that seems not too
>> hard.
>>
>> However, I'm quite ok with (gnu home services ...), just asking to avoid
>> one more migration later.
>
> I'm OK with both variants, but (gnu services) seems more friendly for
> sharing the code and as (gnu home services) doesn't look hard to migrate
> with current amount of services in (gnu home-services).

I’m in favor of (gnu home services) rather than (gnu services), in part
because we have yet to figure out how much can be shared between System
and Home services, and in part because the Home bits are likely useless
for System.

>> Let me know, which option seems better to you, I can take this task
>> tomorrow.
>
> I could try to join the migration on friday, or weekends.  Fill free to
> delegate (gnu home-services XYZ) module migration to me here, or IRC.

Awesome, and I see we already have a new patch series to look at,
thanks!  :-)

Ludo’.