Re: more than one target service shehperd-root / possible scheme records terribleness

[Joshua Branson]

raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:

> I have an operating-system called bingobongo. I have another called
> greg that inherits the bingobongo config. If I leave the services field
> empty in greg, there is no issue. If I define it as
> (operating-system-services bingobongo) then all hell breaks loose and I
> get the aforementioned error and no amount of filtering seems to fix it
> becaues then I get the same error but with "profile" instead of
> shepherd-root.
>
> Now, I don't know what causes this, whether it's a Guix issue or
> Guile's record system being... well... kind of terrible, but in any
> case it should be treated like a bug, because a user should not have to
> dig as deeply into Guix internals as I have so far.

Can you show us some code?  That may help.

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