[bug#49082] [PATCH] guix: gexp: Make UTF-8 a default port encoding in mixed-text-file

[Andrew Tropin]

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

> Am Freitag, den 18.06.2021, 19:21 +0300 schrieb Andrew Tropin:
>> Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:
>> 
>> > I appreciate this change, but how many rebuilds will it cause? It
>> > might
>> > need to go to core-updates.
>> > Regards, Leo
>> 
>> Not so many I suppose, AFAIK, it's not used by any packages, so it
>> will
>> cause rebuild only for users of 2 dozens of system services during
>> system reconfigure, which should be quite cheap, because it's just
>> string concatenation.  Let me know if my understanding is wrong here.
>> 
>> Anyway, I don't mind it going to core-updates if you think it's
>> necessary.
> In that case it's probably good to go to master.
Good!
> One thing to note however, is that we typically bind %default-port-
> encoding throughout Guix.  I suppose this doesn't work for stuff like
> mixed-text-file, since it's executed in a different context?
Very probably.

Have a good weekend!