Ah I hit return too soon :/ Apologies for the noise. This is what I wanted to add to my previous message:

... We kind of are obviously even if restic-guix is already in the master branch ( https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/services/backup.scm#n170 ), which suffers from many of the shortcomings you noticed in your review, such as: use of ‘first & co., use of ‘error’, custom argument parsing procedure. In my opinion ...

thank you again for your review,

giacomo