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Re: using Shepherd outside of GuixSD ?


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: using Shepherd outside of GuixSD ?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:14:28 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:

> Benjamin Slade <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> [...] So the 'guix system' tools are only available on GuixSD
>> proper, and not via the guix standalone?
>
> The "guix system" tools are available via Guix standalone.  It's just
> that some of the commands might not behave as expected.  For example,
> you probably don't want to run "guix system reconfigure" from a
> standalone Guix installation, since it might mess up your distro.
> Please be careful!
>
> Tools like "guix system vm" and "guix system build" will certainly work.

In fact ‘guix system reconfigure’ is the only one that cannot work on a
foreign distro.

Ludo’.



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