Nadrieril

My main reason for setting up `/persistent` the way I do is that I started from an existing normal nixos installation. So `/persistent` points to the root of a normal...

Yeah, we'd need NixOS to support specifying dependencies between mounts or something like that. That's why I thought mentioning it in README is the best we can do from here

I think you can do: ```dhall let var = Some env:VAR ? None Text ... ``` (you may need some more parentheses I can never remember precedences)

> Given that it appears that at least one user ran into this problem then I would go with the mitigation that @sellout suggested for this specific problem: include following...

More generally we may want to rename the fields; this would make it closer to a form of pattern-matching. We'd get something like that, similar to what Rust does: ```rust...

I agree that the `{ bar: renamed_bar }` syntax is confusing. What about `{ bar = renamed_bar }`, so that deconstruction mirrors construction ? My secret plan is that we...

I would find that very surprising, and it's easy to do with ```dhall let {x, y} = ... let distance = sqrt (x*x + y*y) in ... ``` I do...

I think the reason is to allow implementations to use an unsorted collection (like a hashmap) to store the contents of a record

Hm, either would be a fine solution. I'd prefer mentioning that comparisons ignore order because it leaves more choice to implementors. The only place where we really require sorting is...

You can already somewhat do this using string concatenation: ```dhall "Some really really" ++ "long text" ``` I don't know if that solves your problem.