Attila Lendvai schreef op di 01-03-2022 om 19:28 [+0100]:
> This increases the flexibility to inherit from this package, and to use
> a non-yet-released version of Shepherd in a Guix build while working on
> Shepherd.
> 
> IOW, it makes it easier to update Shepherd without going through staging
> and/or rebuilding several dependant packages.
> 
> This also updates Shepherd to the latest commit, so that the two variants
> have a different version.
> 
> * gnu/packages/admin.scm (shepherd-for-guix): New variable.
> ---
> 
> once it's merged, i'll send another patch to staging that will simplify this.
> 
>  gnu/packages/admin.scm    | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  gnu/services/shepherd.scm |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/admin.scm b/gnu/packages/admin.scm
> index c8f91aab0d..3c02b16f34 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/admin.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/admin.scm
> @@ -307,6 +307,42 @@ (define-public shepherd
>      (license license:gpl3+)
>      (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/")))
>  
> +(define-public shepherd-for-guix


Perhaps the explanation what's it for could be moved to a comment next
to 'shepherd-for-guix'?  Perhaps:

;; This is the Shepherd package used by Guix.  This package variant
;; allows us to add new features and fix bugs in Shepherd and use the
;; new features in Guix, without having to go through the 'staging'
;; branch and without having to wait for a new release, see
;; [...] in the manual.
(define-public shepherd-for-guix ...)

Greetings,
Maxime.