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guix-install.sh: port to other distros & init systems

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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 40601 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40601] New reduced patchset, the easy bits first
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:30:05 +0100

I rebased and sent the next batch

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 8:35 PM Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> > Thanks for sending a smaller set of patches, that makes reviewing
> > easier. I made some tweaks, and pushed 4 commits to master as
> > d2532317d136ac063a24baeec6688ea0e0ebe37b.
>
> Thanks for taking care of this, I'll have a look.
>
> > I'm not sure about the bashisms stuff, given the script seems to depend
> > on bash (see the exec bash bit at the start), I think using bash
> > functionality is reasonable. What was your motivation behind these
> > changes? (sorry if I've missed this earlier in the thread).
>
> Some distributions that I intended to add support for don't default to bash
> (nor have it installed by default). I think this script should aim for
> the broadest
> possible support, but that is only my opinion.
>
> And the patch set was not finished, I wanted to tackle the low hanging fruits
> first (also to test the interest from the guix team before doing too much).
>
> > Maybe once we've talked about the bashisms stuff, would you be able to
> > send another set of patches for review?
>
> I'll try to revive the patch set, and submit other portions I should have lying
> somewhere.
>
> Tchuss
>
> --
> Vincent Legoll



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Vincent Legoll

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