Re: ZFS part of Guix? RFC? (Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?)

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 11:54:15AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> raid5atemyhomework wrote patches to add ZFS to Guix
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45692>.  I put them in CC.  That there is
> no decision on ZFS and their patches is bad.  Maybe their patches
> would be for the RFC model to decide?

Maybe there is consensus that adding ZFS is a legal risk.

There is no consensus on the amount of risk.

Are there two camps,

- one unwilling to impose any such risk on users (i.e. close as
  won’t-fix <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45692> and remove traces of
  ZFS)

- one “Worse is better” camp that likes to move fast and break things?
  I think of
  <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-09/msg00220.html>,
  even though Katherine Cox-Buday did not get involved here at all.

Then who decides?

I don’t actually care about ZFS myself, but there should be a decision
because I think current badly supported ZFS makes people here unhappy.

Regards,
Florian