Subject: bug#56799: (gnu services configuration) usage of *unspecified* is problematic

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 12:00:34 +0200

On 01-08-2022 07:08, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>         (quote
>          ("/gnu/store/14flr53fr0hs7mzfwn93kmyzrnb3fhjz-dummy-jami-account.gz"))
>         (quote
>          (*unspecified*))
>         (quote
>          (*unspecified*))

These lines look suspicious to me -- should they have done (list 
*unspecified*) instead of '(*unspecified*)?

The former uses the actual unspecified object, the latter uses the 
symbol '*unspecified*' that merely happens to be the name of a variable 
the unspecified object is bound to.

Greetings,
Maxime.