Subject: [PATCH] services: Add ‘/usr/bin/env’ special file.

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 04:06:35 +0200

* gnu/services/base.scm (%base-services): Add ‘/usr/bin/env‘ to
special-files-service-type.
---

Guix,

I didn't even realise this was ‘missing’.  Is there any reason not to include it next to /bin/sh?

Sure, it's not pure, but then why provide /bin/sh when nowadays /usr/bin/env is both more common, more flexible,>

Feel free to gently enlighten me.

Kind regards,

T G-R

gnu/services/base.scm | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index f709ca5519..444e48f137 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019 Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -2382,6 +2383,8 @@ to handle."
 
         (service special-files-service-type
                  `(("/bin/sh" ,(file-append (canonical-package bash)
-                                            "/bin/sh"))))))
+                                            "/bin/sh"))
+                   ("/usr/bin/env" ,(file-append (canonical-package coreutils)
+                                                 "/usr/bin/env"))))))
 
 ;;; base.scm ends here
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