Re: What is the philosophy behind shepherd?

2019-04-07 Thread Adam Pribyl
Shepherd is more like (sysv)init system, what's different is it is in guile, ie. you may easily extended or script it like you did with init via bash and like you can not with systemd because systemd only allows ComplicatedSetOfPredefinedCrypticWordsToDoAnything. To my experience systemd is go

Re: 07/07: services: console-keymap: Deprecate.

2019-04-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark & Alex, Alex Kost skribis: > Mark H Weaver (2019-04-05 21:45 -0400) wrote: > >> Hi Ludovic, >> >> guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: >> >>> civodul pushed a commit to branch master >>> in repository guix. >>> >>> commit 3a665637afc32a142dc24a77ce7ce9235eb6a3af >>> Author: Ludovic Courtès >>>

Installer & services

2019-04-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! In commit 7d1030a63592aa2f94f6617786f22cfa83fb346f I added a dialog to select networking services, currently sshd and Tor. I realized that for a server kind of installation, it’d be nice to have NetworkManager or connman in there. I’ll see if I can add it. Anything else we could off

Installer & locales

2019-04-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > I tested an old install image a few weeks old and the > locales/languages in the language selection at the beginning were > apparently not sorted by their English name, but the English name was > displayed, so the sorted order was wrong. Al

Re: custom kernel config

2019-04-07 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 01:44:48AM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > Efraim Flashner writes: > > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:49:59PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > >> Thank you Efraim, this is awesome! > > I second this remark! It's really helpful to see how you're doing it. > Thank you for tak

Re: What is the philosophy behind shepherd?

2019-04-07 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 07:08:55PM -0400, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > In other words, I think systemd exists in many ways to make up for the > limitations of a monolithic kernel approach. In that way, it makes > sense, but I think we could do better with a different fundamental > infrastruc