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[PATCH] guix: gexp: Make UTF-8 a default port encoding in mixed-text-file

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Message #14 received at 49082 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
To: Andrew Tropin <andrew <at> trop.in>, 49082 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] guix: gexp: Make UTF-8 a default port encoding in
 mixed-text-file
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 18:39:18 +0200

Am Freitag, den 18.06.2021, 19:21 +0300 schrieb Andrew Tropin:
> Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at> writes:
> 
> > I appreciate this change, but how many rebuilds will it cause? It
> > might
> > need to go to core-updates.
> > Regards, Leo
> 
> Not so many I suppose, AFAIK, it's not used by any packages, so it
> will
> cause rebuild only for users of 2 dozens of system services during
> system reconfigure, which should be quite cheap, because it's just
> string concatenation.  Let me know if my understanding is wrong here.
> 
> Anyway, I don't mind it going to core-updates if you think it's
> necessary.
In that case it's probably good to go to master.
One thing to note however, is that we typically bind %default-port-
encoding throughout Guix.  I suppose this doesn't work for stuff like
mixed-text-file, since it's executed in a different context?

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