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[PATCH 0/5] Some basic Home Shepherd Services
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Ludovic Courtès writes:
Hey!
> "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke <at> gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> I've been waiting for Guix Home to offer some basic shepherd services for most
>> used daemons, replacing the neat shepherd hack described in
>>
>> https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/gnu-shepherd-user-services/
>>
>> that I've been using, and am a bit puzzled as to why this didn't happen. Are
>> people using Guix Home?
>
> I am! :-)
Oh, good. I'v been tempted for quite a while and will try to switch
when this patch series goes in. I'll be moving bits the
executable/configuration bits (that are without secrets) from my
home.git to guix-home.
> Possible reasons not all the services described there made it into Guix
> Home: (1) needs vary :-),
yeah...could be I'm the only one using kodi and znc, but I expected
ssh-agent to be kinda popular...
> (2) it’s possible to migrate incrementally,
> with some things handled with Home while others are still managed “the
> old way” (that’s what I do),
That sounds like a stategy I'll be following too
> and (3) rde is kinda “competing” with Home by providing a whole bunch
> of services, giving less of an incentive to migrate them (it’s an
> unfortunate issue we identified at the time Home got merged).
Ouch, why that's...terrible? Is there any reason stuff is not
contributed "up stream"? ;)
> But with contributions like these, the situation will improve!
Yay! Let's go for that, then.
Greetings,
Janneke
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