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daemon store names can't start with a dot

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Cc: Nils Gillmann <ng0 <at> n0.is>, 32111-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: daemon store names can't start with a dot
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:20:23 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Clément,
>
> Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> skribis:
>
>> Nils Gillmann <ng0 <at> n0.is> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can you provide some context why this is necessary, maybe even
>>> in the commit message?
>>
>> It's necessary when you want to package a program whose source looks
>> like file:///home/foo/.bar.
>
> I’d rather not make this kind of change.  In general, I think we should
> be very conservative about changes to the daemon and its protocol,
> because that’s the common denominator of all the versions of Guix.
>
> If we change something like it, then we’ll get subtle breakage depending
> on the version of the daemon in use.
>
> WDYT?

Okay, let's abandon this then :-)

CCing bug-guix because I still think it's a bug; please close it if you
disagree.

Clément

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