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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: bug#22039: 'guix system reconfigure' must start/restart/stop services
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:34:14 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:
>
>> Currently =E2=80=98guix system reconfigure=E2=80=99 doesn=E2=80=99t try =
to dynamically update
>> the set of running services, which is a shame.
>>
>> A simple strategy would be to have it:
>>
>>   1. Stop and unregister services currently known to dmd that are
>>      missing in the new configuration.
>>
>>   2. Load and start (if they have =E2=80=98auto-start?=E2=80=99) service=
s that are in
>>      the new configuration and currently unknown to dmd.
>>
>>   3. The rest is the most difficult part: dealing with services that
>>      already exist but that have changed (see below.)
>
> Commit 240b57f implements #1 and #2.

Awesome!  This is very good progress.

- Dave