[bug#40770] [PATCH 0/5] Add declarative profiles

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Guix!

This patch set introduces “declarative profiles” or, in other words,
a way to declare a profile and use it in a gexp without calling
‘profile-derivation’, fiddling with ‘%store-monad’ and all that.

The goals are:

  1. To provide a simpler programming interface, reducing the need
     to resort to ‘%store-monad’, and making it usable in a wider
     range of contexts (see for example
     
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/hurd.scm?h=core-updates&id=5084fd38541a5fc233f3299e10a33c3a38a7173f>).

  2. To potentially improve high-level caching in the object cache
     as well as “parallelism” (see <https://bugs.gnu.org/40612>).

Feedback welcome!

Ludo’.

Ludovic Courtès (5):
  profiles: Add lowerable <profile> record type.
  system: 'operating-system-directory-base-entries' uses 'profile'.
  services: profile: Use a declarative profile.
  pack: Use a declarative profile.
  services: system: Initial entries are non-monadic.

 gnu/services.scm               | 13 ++++++------
 gnu/system.scm                 | 27 ++++++++++++-------------
 gnu/system/linux-container.scm |  6 ++----
 guix/profiles.scm              | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 guix/scripts/pack.scm          | 33 +++++++++++++++----------------
 tests/profiles.scm             | 13 +++++++++++-
 6 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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