bug#73903: [shepherd]: Guix Home's shepherd masks shutdown/reboot on foreign distribution

[Dariqq <dariqq@posteo.net>]

Hi,

On 20.11.24 11:46, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> 
>> Another (simpler solution) would be to just solve the problem in guix
>> by using a shepherd variant that deletes sbin and share/man/man8.
> 
> Yes, this sounds like a reasonable solution to me.
> 
> Ludo’.

How should this work? should this be a (public?) procedure? Should it 
rebuild shepherd or just copy the output with trivial-build-system?


I just thought of a more elegant solution, but this would be a lot 
harder to implement properly:

- Move the sbin stuff into a seperate output
- Home shepherd service only adds the main output to the profile and 
shepherd-root-service both
- Will need adjustments some packages that currently reference 
shutdown/reboot ( -> lots of rebuilds because logind) and the same 
change for the shepherd packages in the shepherd module.