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Subject: Re: Don't auto-start a service in Shepherd
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:44:39 +0100
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To: Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>
Cc: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>, help-guix@gnu.org

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=E2=80=99.