[bug#54216] [PATCH staging v3] gnu: shepherd: Build it from git, and clean up shepherd-for-guix.

[Attila Lendvai]

i really wish if this patch progressed, and if Guix master included the 
#:resource-limits commit sooner than later.

Ludo, can you please point out more precisely what is your concern? i'd be 
happy to reshape the patches accordingly.

1) including an unreleased Shepherd in Guix

2) building Shepherd from git instead of a release tarball

3) adding a secondary shepherd package

4) the currently proposed names/setup of the secondary shepherd package

5) ?

the rationale for this patch is discussed above, but to sum it up:

- several packages depend on shepherd, therefore updating it results in a long 
recompile (currently shepherd patches must also go into staging). this greatly 
increases the edit-compile-test cycle of hacking on shepherd and testing it "in 
place" using `guix system vm`.

- using git as source plays better with SWH and simplifies building a different 
version of shepherd.

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