bug#35640: Make USB modems just work on Guix

["pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>]

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On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 10:57:20PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 05:24:39PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > The comment is unnecessary, but otherwise LGTM!
> > 
> 
> :) I have attached the patch without the command.
> 

I have attached the patch again without the comment and with
mentioning modem support in the Desktop services section in the
doc/guix.texi manual.  Previously it was only said in the Network
services section that modem-manager-service-type were part of
%desktop-services.

Regards,
Florian

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From 061c976e38b8b332602e84ac74717384aab57d56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Pelz <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 22:51:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] services: Include ModemManager in %desktop-services.

* gnu/services/desktop.scm (%desktop-services): Add modem-manager-service-type.
* doc/guix.texi (Desktop services): Mention it here.
---
 doc/guix.texi            | 17 +++++++++--------
 gnu/services/desktop.scm |  1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 3f50bf77fe..aa08832fae 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Oleg Pykhalov@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Mike Gerwitz@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Pierre-Antoine Rouby@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Gábor Boskovits@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Florian Pelz@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2018, 2019 Florian Pelz@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Laura Lazzati@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Alex Vong@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Josh Holland@*
@@ -14620,13 +14620,14 @@ adds or adjusts services for a typical ``desktop'' setup.
 
 In particular, it adds a graphical login manager (@pxref{X Window,
 @code{gdm-service-type}}), screen lockers, a network management tool
-(@pxref{Networking Services, @code{network-manager-service-type}}), energy and color
-management services, the @code{elogind} login and seat manager, the
-Polkit privilege service, the GeoClue location service, the
-AccountsService daemon that allows authorized users change system
-passwords, an NTP client (@pxref{Networking Services}), the Avahi
-daemon, and has the name service switch service configured to be able to
-use @code{nss-mdns} (@pxref{Name Service Switch, mDNS}).
+(@pxref{Networking Services, @code{network-manager-service-type}}) with modem
+support (@pxref{Networking Services, @code{modem-manager-service-type}}),
+energy and color management services, the @code{elogind} login and seat
+manager, the Polkit privilege service, the GeoClue location service, the
+AccountsService daemon that allows authorized users change system passwords,
+an NTP client (@pxref{Networking Services}), the Avahi daemon, and has the
+name service switch service configured to be able to use @code{nss-mdns}
+(@pxref{Name Service Switch, mDNS}).
 @end defvr
 
 The @var{%desktop-services} variable can be used as the @code{services}
diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
index 5e0bd102a2..ac714ca5e0 100644
--- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
@@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ dispatches events from it.")))
 
          ;; The D-Bus clique.
          (service network-manager-service-type)
+         (service modem-manager-service-type)
          (service wpa-supplicant-service-type)    ;needed by NetworkManager
          (service avahi-service-type)
          (udisks-service)
-- 
2.21.0