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doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name

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From: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>
To: Luis Felipe via Guix-patches <guix-patches <at> gnu.org>
Subject: doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:28:27 +0000

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Change "bind" package variable name to the actual variable name, "isc-bind".


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Luis Felipe López Acevedo
https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Luis Felipe via Guix-patches via <guix-patches <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 46852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#46852] doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 15:22:26 -0500

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 04:28:27PM +0000, Luis Felipe via Guix-patches via wrote:
> Change "bind" package variable name to the actual variable name, "isc-bind".
> 
> 
> ---
> Luis Felipe López Acevedo
> https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/
> 

> From 91f7ec90fbe742de6eb3c092c86d84125a56f51f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 11:15:16 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name.
> 
> * doc/guix.texi (Globally-Visible Packages): Change "bind" variable
> name to the actual variable name, "isc-bind".

Is there a reason for this change?

It's okay for packages and variables to have different names.

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>, Luis Felipe
 <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 46852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#46852] doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:53:15 +0100

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Leo!

Leo Famulari 写道：
> Is there a reason for this change?

It's just weird to say ‘...now assume there's a package called 
bind, but there isn't, and then you could write...’ when we could 
use a valid package from the get-go.

It's safe to assume that ‘bind’ was simply a typo, and the fix is 
just and good.

> It's okay for packages and variables to have different names.

Hm, you lose me here.  The snippet clearly intends to refer to 
BIND-the-package (few other packages have a "utils" output), not 
some arbitrary user (eh) binding...

Kind regards,

T G-R

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From: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: "46852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <46852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [bug#46852] doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:38:52 +0000

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 11:53 PM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> wrote:

> Leo!
>
> Leo Famulari 写道：
>
> > Is there a reason for this change?

Oh, I should have said so in the commit message, sorry. The reason is that if I add (list bind "utils") to the packages field in my operating system definition, reconfiguring the system fails because "bind" is a built-in Guile procedure, and so the package variable for BIND is called "isc-bind" to avoid that conflict.

Message #22 received at 46852-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 46852-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>,
 Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: Re: bug#46852: doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:34:42 -0400

Hello,

Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 11:53 PM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> wrote:
>
>> Leo!
>>
>> Leo Famulari 写道：
>>
>> > Is there a reason for this change?
>
> Oh, I should have said so in the commit message, sorry. The reason is
> that if I add (list bind "utils") to the packages field in my
> operating system definition, reconfiguring the system fails because
> "bind" is a built-in Guile procedure, and so the package variable for
> BIND is called "isc-bind" to avoid that conflict.

Applied as 0b5120fb03db5226871b3482a72b1e6fdaa59ead, thank you!

And thanks to Leo and Tobias for getting the matter clarified :-).

Closing,

Maxim

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