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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>
Cc: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Don't auto-start a service in Shepherd
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:44:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sh2fv7c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180226114205.70f8965c@mykolab.com> (Rutger Helling's message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:42:05 +0100")

Hello,

Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com> skribis:

> Thanks for the replies. My use case is that I don't want to auto-start
> SDDM, since I usually start GNOME (Wayland) from the TTY. However there
> are certain cases where I want to start GNOME on X11, for which I do
> need SDDM.
>
> On systemd you can do "systemctl disable service", so I was wondering if
> there was an equivelant command in Shepherd. Removing the
> service entirely and reconfiguring every time I want to start SDDM
> isn't really what I'm looking for.
>
> I'll have a look at `auto-start?`. I think it would be nice if all
> services exposed this option.

Currently the simplest solution is to expose it for services where the
need is widespread.

Longer-term we may want a more generic mechanism like
<https://bugs.gnu.org/27155>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-03-02 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-23  9:22 Don't auto-start a service in Shepherd Rutger Helling
2018-02-24 22:15 ` Chris Marusich
2018-02-24 22:27 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-02-26 10:42   ` Rutger Helling
2018-03-02 13:44     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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