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Subject: Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking',
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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:35:04 +0200
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On Thu 21 Jul 2016 16:39, "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writ=
es:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Jan Syn=C3=A1=C4=8Dek <jan.synacek@gmail=
.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Vincent Legoll
>> <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a simple command line that would list such services ?
>>>
>>> herd list --type=3Dnetworking
>>>
>>> or something like that, that would make for the almost-perfect suggesti=
on...
>>
>> Yes! I'm glad we're saying the same, even though differently:)
>
> This information is not knowable, sorry.  The set of possible services
> outside of what is declared in the system configuration is infinite.

However... if you grovel the file system for files in the load path that
have a prefix of gnu/services named .scm and load their corresponding
module and filter out only the services and get their names, then that's
not all of them but it would be good enough :)

Andy