From: Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: “System” and “profile” services
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:33:21 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1511031032330.3551@sandbox.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u6gt2lj.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Commits d62e201 and af4c3fd add ‘system-service-type’, which is the now
> the real root of the service DAG, and ‘profile-service-type’, which is
> the service that populates the system profile
> (aka. /run/current-system/profile.)
>
> The latter means that services can add packages to the system profile,
> which is useful in some cases.
>
> For instance, with commit 87f4001, Wicd adds itself to the system
> profile so that ‘wicd-client’ and other commands are automatically
> available, without having to fiddle with the ‘packages’ field of the OS.
>
> This should simplify things a bit.
Nice! I'll test that when release comes...
> Ludo’.
Adam Pribyl
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2015-11-02 23:15 “System” and “profile” services Ludovic Courtès
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