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

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Message #17 received at 49082 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrew Tropin <andrew <at> trop.in>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>, 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 20:21:09 +0300

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at> writes:

> 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.
Good!
> 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?
Very probably.

Have a good weekend!

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