[bug#63985] [PATCH v3 00/11] Service subsystem improvements

[Bruno Victal]

Hi all,

I've been pondering about the changes here and would like to comment
on them:

On 2023-06-26 22:57, Bruno Victal wrote:
> Bruno Victal (11):
>   services: configuration: Simplify normalize-extra-args.
>   services: configuration: Use transducers within
>     serialize-configuration.
>   services: fstrim-service-type: Serialize with SRFI-171 transducers.
>   doc: Rewrite define-configuration.
>   services: configuration: Add serializer-options field.

I think these changes are OK on their own since they add some extra
flexibility to the serialize-configuration procedure and address a
TODO item.

>   services: configuration: New generic-ini module.
>   services: configuration: Add some commonly used predicates.

IMO I'm afraid this might be somewhat short-sighted and would be
better addressed directly in Guile by implementing SRFI-233, perhaps
by doing some adaptations to the approach taken here.

>   services: NetworkManager: Use define-configuration and generic-ini.>   
> services: NetworkManager: Prefer package over network-manager.
>   services: NetworkManager: add log-configuration field.
>   services: NetworkManager: Add extra-options field.

Naturally these are no longer relevant if this generic-ini module
approach is abandoned.

Comments?


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Cheers,
Bruno.