Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

[Tomas Volf]

On 2024-02-06 13:09:15 +0100, Clément Lassieur wrote:
> Hi!  Why is it more complicated with services?  You don't need forks at
> all to use packages and services outside of Guix proper.

For packages we have transformations, or I can just inherit.  But I am not aware
of such option for services (is there anything?).

Example: For long time the connman-configuration did not support a way to
provide a configuration file (well, it still does not but that is not the
point).  But I needed it.  So, what options I had?

1. Copy&paste the definition (-configuration, -service-type, ...?) into my
   system configuration and modify it.
2. Modify it in-place in my fork.

I tried 1. first, but keeping it up-to-date proved annoying, having zero support
from git.  Since I already made my fork (due to #65002, which just is not
possible to do outside Guix repository), I later switched to 2. and it worked
well, so I prefer that approach now.

I agree there is no issue for new packages nor new services, I should have
clarified that in my original message.

Have a nice day,
Tomas Volf

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