Hi Guix,

Lately I've been a bit annoyed by messages from the home shepherd when 
logging in trough a tty.

The shepherd help output advertises --silent/--quiet options to not 
output to stdout but looking through the shepherd repository this 
options are doing nothing.

The other day I was able to hack something together which from limited 
testing seems to make those options work (with a corresponding patch to 
add --silent to the home-shepherd launch script). I have attached my 
surprisingly simple diff (which applies on top of devel branch).

It was not clear to me weather boolean variables should be suffixed 
wirth "?". When it got removed in [1] a long time ago it was unsuffixed.

I have tested the patched devel shepherd and a similar diff on top of 
0.10.5 and seems to work as I expect it: The output to stdout is no 
longer there but still available in the shepherd log file.

Slightly related I noticed an issue with the devel shepherd invoked via 
guix home not daemonizing blocking my login manager.

I hope this useful for someone else as well.
Dariqq

[1] 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/commit/?id=e86cfe28c14d734fe917e4935d72e7ad2cc9b299