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

[Dariqq]

Hi Ludo,

On 10.11.24 12:51, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dariqq <dariqq@posteo.net> skribis:
>
> > When using guix home to manage shepherd services on a foreign
> > distribution the shepherd package is also added to the home-profile.
> >
> > This then makes the home profile provide 'halt', 'shutdown' and
> > 'reboot' (and their manpages) masking the system ones.
>
> Oh, indeed.  I’m not sure how to address that though.  Ideas?
Not sure if this is something that should be addressed by shepherd or 
the default shepherd package used for guix home.

Initially I had the idea to add a configure flag to shepherd to disable 
"building" and installing these 5 files (which is why I reported against 
shepherd). I threw something together that works but I am not really 
happy with it because imo such an option should disable *all*
 things that are not required when only using it for user level 
services and not just the entrypoints. That would be a lot more work though.

Another (simpler solution) would be to just solve the problem in guix by 
using a shepherd variant that deletes sbin and share/man/man8.


Wdyt?
> Ludo’.