[bug#50967] [PATCH 00/12] Move (gnu home-services XYZ) to (gnu services XYZ)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> skribis:

> On Sat, Oct 02 2021, Oleg Pykhalov wrote:
>
>> * gnu/home/services/configuration.scm (interpose): Include content of files.
>> (string-or-gexp?): Rename to 'file-or-string-or-gexp?' and check for 
>> file-like
>> object.
>
> I would call it ‘file-like-or-string-or-gexp?’, just ‘files’ doesn’t
> really make it clear that it should be a “file-like object”.

As a matter of API, I would make it monomorphic: accept a file-like
object, period.  This is what’s done for System services (and
polymorphic APIs are rare in general in Guix).

‘plain-file’ and ‘scheme-file’ allow users to “convert” a string or a
gexp into a file-like object.

WDYT?

Ludo’.