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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Configuring a service but not starting it on boot
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:49:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgzk5faq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7o9a9m6nw.fsf@systemreboot.net> (Arun Isaac's message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2018 23:22:03 +0530")

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:

>> It would be best if we had a generic way to say which Shepherd
>> services should be started automatically and which shouldn’t.
>
> Could you describe some way to achieve this? If it's simple enough, I
> can implement it and contribute a patch.

I don’t have a good idea on how to do it.

One thing I proposed long ago is this:
<https://issues.guix.info/issue/27155>.  It would allow us to address
this kind of issue but it has the drawback that it makes it harder to
reason about the relationships among services: anything can happen.

Needs more thought…

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-29 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-28  7:47 Configuring a service but not starting it on boot Arun Isaac
2018-11-28  9:34 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-11-28 16:11   ` Arun Isaac
2018-11-28 16:44     ` znavko
2018-11-28 17:20     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-28 17:52       ` Arun Isaac
2018-11-29 10:49         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-11-30  9:03           ` Arun Isaac

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