From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Configuring a service but not starting it on boot Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:49:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87sgzk5faq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y39dy28x.fsf@lassieur.org> <87ftvl15ll.fsf@gnu.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]:58899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gSJtI-0006gd-Rm for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 05:49:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gSJtI-000073-2w for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 05:49:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Arun Isaac's message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2018 23:22:03 +0530") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Arun Isaac Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Arun Isaac skribis: >> It would be best if we had a generic way to say which Shepherd >> services should be started automatically and which shouldn=E2=80=99t. > > Could you describe some way to achieve this? If it's simple enough, I > can implement it and contribute a patch. I don=E2=80=99t have a good idea on how to do it. One thing I proposed long ago is this: . It would allow us to address this kind of issue but it has the drawback that it makes it harder to reason about the relationships among services: anything can happen. Needs more thought=E2=80=A6 Ludo=E2=80=99.