Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix

[Thorsten Wilms]

On 22.03.2018 00:00, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Thorsten Wilms <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Initially I thought creation of /tmp/.X11-unix should be tied to the
> > xorg-server-xwayland package, but since it is more generic: which
> > component should create that dir on Guix SD (based on what)?
>
> It is needed at run-time (because packages cannot create files outside
> of their store prefix at build time), so it should be created by a
> system service.  A service is not the same as a shepherd service; we
> also have activation services that run once and only create a file or a
> directory.

After 2 to 3 hours of research, going through documentation and various 
.scm, I still don't even manage to write a service for my system 
configuration that just does a (mkdir-p "/tmp/.X11-uni"), so figuring 
out how to make that dependent on the actual need is way outside my 
capabilities.

Should I file a bug, and if so, against what?


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