From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Othacehe Subject: Re: Defining user services in Guix. Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:27:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87inlvdr76.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87o9vowfn0.fsf@gmail.com> <20170422203131.610f2a30@scratchpost.org> <878tmsghzk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2KMl-0001ey-QL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:28:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2KMi-0006ok-Lk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:28:03 -0400 In-reply-to: <878tmsghzk.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi guys, >> But you can start your own shepherd under your user account and have that shepherd manage user services - it's nice. Thank you Danny for the details procedure. I'll use that for now ! > Surely we could do better, like providing unprivileged users with a tool > akin to ‘guix system reconfigure’ but to manage their own services. > This came up several times in the past. Well, I think it's too bad that user services can't be handled as easily as the other services in Guix. I would be eager to participate to some sort of guix system reconfigure --user-services that would allow people to write and share their unpriviledged services :). Mathieu