From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Managing user environments Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 11:32:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87blxb7tqe.fsf@elephly.net> References: <1D6F50BE-4430-4B1C-8F71-0AF1D6D84648@lepiller.eu> <87h8747rou.fsf@elephly.net> <87lfwf3o5l.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34051) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hsOV1-0001Hp-TM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 05:32:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hsOV0-0003pT-Hv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 05:32:51 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hsOV0-0003oY-6a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 05:32:50 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lfwf3o5l.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I can see quite some overlap with Shepherd User Services: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00128.html > > What do you think? Yes, I felt reminded of Shepherd User Services as well. > The main difference I can see with Julien's approach is that the > declarativeness is not enforced since home would not be read-only. This could still be done as part of the service actions if desired. -- Ricardo