From: Raghav Gururajan <rvgn@disroot.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "System Package" vs "System Service"
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:28:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a31fbd5f8b1d8c43c3a3222a367b2780c9d348ef.camel@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190428184136.4f4dafbb@scratchpost.org>
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Thank you very much for your clear explanation. I did add Tor Service
with Default Configuration to my system config; ans also added the user
to Tor group. But it seems that the traffic is not routed when I
checked with "check.torproject.org". What should I do?
On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 18:41 +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>
> Error verifying signature: Failed to execute gpg.
> Hi,
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:59:59 -0400Raghav Gururajan <rvgn@disroot.org>
> wrote:
> I have this confusion/doubt. What is the difference between
> declaringsomething as "System Package" vs "System Service" in the
> Guix SystemConfiguration?
> A package is a thing that is present in your system and just stays
> put,similar to a chair or any other passive object. If you want, you
> canmove the chair yourself or whatever, but it won't do things for
> youexcept incidentially.
> A service is an active process that, if you ask it to, will do work
> for youin order to reach a long-term goal. The level of detail you
> have to specifywhen requesting the service is usually very low
> compared to what work willactually be carried out.For example a
> hairdressing service provides you the service of cuttingyour hair to
> a fashionable style.
> A chair and a hairdressing service are fundamentally different.
> Tor usually provides a proxy service (at port 9050) which will proxy
> allyour network traffic through it, with the goal of improving your
> privacy.
> It's difficult to see what you need the tor package to be installed
> for--because the service will already provide the proxying. If you
> wanttor admin tools, you can of course install those (probably as
> userpackages).
> For reference, I have ten system packages in addition to %base-
> packages(there are 40 in the latter currently) and I'm a heavy guix
> user.If anything, I expect both counts to decrease over time.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-29 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-28 15:59 "System Package" vs "System Service" Raghav Gururajan
2019-04-28 16:41 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-29 13:28 ` Raghav Gururajan [this message]
2019-05-06 3:24 ` Chris Marusich
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