Re: Running guix home + shepherd in non-Guix OS

[Abbé <gnu.bonfire@p.atriar.ch>]

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Hi Carlo,

Apologies for missing your reply, and thank you for time to reply to me.

On Tuesday, February 6th, 2024 at 1:35 PM, Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au> wrote:

> Hi Abbé,
> 

> On Mon, Feb 05 2024, Abbé wrote:
> 

> > I'm wondering how would one go about integrating shepherd with 'guix
> > home' configuration (i.e. home environment services), akin to what
> > Guix does (I believe, without needing to do 'guix home ...').

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> Guix Home does more than just start shepherd services. It is a system
> for managing packages, configuration files, etc. If you haven't already,
> I would suggest reading "(guix) Home Configuration" in the manual.

Thanks, on careful reading, I spotted what I was missing. It works as expected now.

> 

> There isn't really anything that you can put into your Shepherd config
> to execute your Home configuration. It goes the other way: instantiating
> your Home config will start a Shepherd process.
> 

> I hope that helps,
> 

> Carlo

Thanks!
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Abbé

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