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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Dariqq,

Dariqq <dariqq@posteo.net> skribis:

> Imo it would make sense to have the sbinless shepherd be the default 
> shepherd for home-shepherd s.t. the home environment never provides 
> shutdown/halt by default. Those are commands are for the system to take 
> care of (whether that is the shepherd coming from root-shepherd or the 
> init from the foreign system).

I agree.

> On my foreign distro setup i am currently using this (apologies if the 
> formatting turns out weird):
>
> (define shepherd-for-home
>    (package
>     (inherit shepherd)
>     (name "shepherd-for-home")
>     (source #f)
>     (build-system trivial-build-system)
>     (arguments
>      (list
>       #:modules '((guix build union)
>                   (guix build utils))
>       #:builder
>       #~(begin
>           (use-modules (guix build union)
>                        (guix build utils))
>           (union-build #$output
>                        (list #$(this-package-input "shepherd"))
>                        #:create-all-directories? #t)
>           (delete-file-recursively (string-append #$output "/sbin"))
>           (delete-file-recursively (string-append #$output 
> "/share/man/man8")))))
>     (native-inputs '())
>     (inputs (list shepherd))))

Perfect!

Would you like to submit a patch adding this package (probably with the
‘hidden?’ property), followed by a patch making it the default for Home?

Thanks,
Ludo’.