Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis: > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis:
[...] >> No :-). I meant why do we even set a default accessor for the *source >> location* information (in the (gnu service configuration) macros); it's >> that one that doesn't seem to get used (or I'm blind to it!), at least >> via this accessor. If it's not strictly necessary, we can stop >> producing it, and that would solve the problem. > > Like I wrote, I think it’s necessary, even if not used now. To complement this answer: key high-level record types usually have a ‘location’ field: <package>, <channel>, <mapped-device>, <file-system>, <service-type>, etc. The rationale is that it allows us to report accurate location info for errors and warnings, to jump to their definition, and so on. For configuration records this is not a common pattern, but the rationale holds. ‘zabbix-front-end-config’ uses the ‘%location’ field, but it seems to be the only one so far. Ludo’.
