Re: Configuring a service but not starting it on boot

[Ludovic Courtès]

Arun Isaac <address@hidden> 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’.