From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Defining user services in Guix. Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:06:23 +0200 Message-ID: <878tmsghzk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o9vowfn0.fsf@gmail.com> <20170422203131.610f2a30@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d246n-0006D6-Lq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:06:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d246k-0000TZ-HM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:06:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170422203131.610f2a30@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Sat, 22 Apr 2017 20:31:31 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > personally, I'd just start it inside ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsession, ~/.fluxbox/= startup or similar. That's a little old-school, though, but it's how I alw= ays did those things. The disadvantage is that if redshift crashes, it's n= ot being brought back up. > > But you can start your own shepherd under your user account and have that= shepherd manage user services - it's nice. That=E2=80=99s exactly what I do. Surely we could do better, like providing unprivileged users with a tool akin to =E2=80=98guix system reconfigure=E2=80=99 but to manage their own s= ervices. This came up several times in the past. Ideas? Ludo=E2=80=99.