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From: Raghav Gururajan <rvgn@disroot.org>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: "System Package" vs "System Service"
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:59:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db4267309302f97bb9827e0f86937b0c21cf24eb.camel@disroot.org> (raw)

Hello Guix!

I have this confusion/doubt. What is the difference between declaring
something as "System Package" vs "System Service" in the Guix System
Configuration?

For example, if I have application[s] (installed as user or in system)
that uses Tor to connect to Internet via Tor Network; is it better to
declare "tor" package under system packages (or install as user) or to
declare "tor-service-type" (with default configuration) under system
services? What actually happens between the former and latter scenario?

Thank you!

Regards,
RG.

             reply	other threads:[~2019-04-28 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-28 15:59 Raghav Gururajan [this message]
2019-04-28 16:41 ` "System Package" vs "System Service" Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-29 13:28   ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-05-06  3:24     ` Chris Marusich
2019-05-07  5:28     ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-05-08  7:18       ` Chris Marusich
2019-05-08  7:43       ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-05-09  6:01         ` Chris Marusich
2019-05-09 14:29         ` Raghav Gururajan

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