Before applied patch [1] I used a hack to override shepherd package: (module-set! (resolve-module '(gnu packages admin)) 'shepherd shepherd-patched) Now on Guix commit eb6b061 I cannot use the previous override, and also the mentioned in [1] way overriding shepherd package doesn't work: (shepherd-root-service-type config => (shepherd-configuration (inherit config) (shepherd shepherd-patched))) I got error about undefined ‘#:supplementary-groups’ which added in ‘shepherd-patched’, so I assume my ‘shepherd-patched’ package not used. [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46043