Hi! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > I think this is close to what Ludo suggested and it addresses janneke concerns > about composability. > > The idea is to introduce the concept of "image-type". An image type is a > converter from an record to an record. > > I have created in this serie 4 new image type records: > - raw > - iso9660 > - uncompressed-iso9660 > - hurd-raw > > I also adapted the "guix system" command by removing the "file-system-type" > argument and replaced it by the "image-type" argument. > > The default is still to create a raw disk-image, but one can now call: > > guix system disk-image -t iso9660 my-config.scm > guix system disk-image -t uncompressed-iso9660 my-config.scm > guix system disk-image -t hurd-raw my-config.scm Neat! > and so on. Maybe we should also rename "disk-image" command to "image" that > would be somehow more accurate. Yes. We can do that separately, but I agree that it would make sense. I wonder if ‘docker-image’ could also fit in there. Apologies for taking so long to reply! Ludo’.