GNU bug report logs - #41139
duplicate service provision error message is too terse

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 20:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: duplicate service provision error message is too terse
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:39:36 +0200

“guix system” prints a very terse error message when a display manager
is added on top of %desktop-services:

    guix system: error: service 'xorg-server' provided more than once

This is not very helpful, because it’s hard to tell how we got there.
Which of the selected services provide xorg-server?

It would be nice if the error message could be a little more helpful.

-- 
Ricardo
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