simple service extensions/composizions (Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion)

[Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>]

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Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> writes:

> On 2024-02-06 13:09:15 +0100, Clément Lassieur wrote:
>> Hi!  Why is it more complicated with services?  You don't need forks at
>> all to use packages and services outside of Guix proper.
>
> For packages we have transformations, or I can just inherit.  But I am not aware
> of such option for services (is there anything?).

Service composition? (info "(guix) Service Composition")

[...]

> Example: For long time the connman-configuration did not support a way to
> provide a configuration file (well, it still does not but that is not the
> point).  But I needed it.  So, what options I had?
 
I still have not had a try but maybe is possible to define something
like my/connman-service-type that extends the default one with all the
fields a user may need.

Maybe a Coockbook section could be useful

Happy hacking! Gio'

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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

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