Re: Adding rottlog service in ‘%base-services’?

2016-10-25 Thread David Craven
Ah I see. Yes that makes sense... David

Re: Adding rottlog service in ‘%base-services’?

2016-10-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
David Craven skribis: >> Not sure I understand the problem. ‘mcron-jobs’ wouldn’t collide with >> anything else AFAICS, and it would be clearer than just ‘jobs’ no? > > What I mean is that mcron-jobs assumes that the mcron-service is used. > Calling it something general like

Re: Adding rottlog service in ‘%base-services’?

2016-10-21 Thread David Craven
> Not sure I understand the problem. ‘mcron-jobs’ wouldn’t collide with > anything else AFAICS, and it would be clearer than just ‘jobs’ no? What I mean is that mcron-jobs assumes that the mcron-service is used. Calling it something general like jobs or cron-jobs wouldn't require renaming, if

Re: Adding rottlog service in ‘%base-services’?

2016-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
David Craven skribis: >> Should we add rottlog-service and thus mcron-service to >> ‘%base-services’? Is log rotation a basic feature that people expect? >> WDYT? > > Why not. There's two sorts of people. The ones that don't care/know > will be happy when things just work and

Re: Adding rottlog service in ‘%base-services’?

2016-10-13 Thread David Craven
> Should we add rottlog-service and thus mcron-service to > ‘%base-services’? Is log rotation a basic feature that people expect? > WDYT? Why not. There's two sorts of people. The ones that don't care/know will be happy when things just work and the ones that care/know are probably defining

Re: Adding rottlog service in ‘%base-services’?

2016-10-13 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Should we add rottlog-service and thus mcron-service to ‘%base-services’? I'd say no, or do like OS configurations and provide a %bare-bones-services, or do it the other way, provide an optional %default-services

Re: Adding rottlog service in ‘%base-services’?

2016-10-13 Thread ng0
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > Should we add rottlog-service and thus mcron-service to > ‘%base-services’? Is log rotation a basic feature that people expect? > WDYT? What's the size of mcron and its dependency graph of unique packages which aren't already pulled in