Re: Deleting services from %desktop-services in operating system declaration

[Efraim Flashner]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:42:11 +0100
address@hidden wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have trouble getting the syntax right to delete avahi and wicd from my 
> config.scm.
> 
> This did not work (inspecting with the REPL):
>    (services (cons* (tor-service) %desktop-services))
>    (modify-services (alist-delete
>                    wicd-service
>                    %desktop-services))
>    (modify-services (alist-delete
>                    avahi-service
>                    %desktop-services))
> 
> Neither this:
>    (services (cons* (tor-service) %desktop-services))
>    (modify-services (alist-delete
>                    wicd-service
>                    avahi-service
>                    %desktop-services))
> 
> The manual does not yet have examples of how to delete one or more 
> entries from the %base-services or other lists.
> 
> Help would be appreciated :)
> 
> cheers
> swedebugia
> 

I haven't written any config.scm files, but if it's like the python packages
this might work:

(services (cons* (tor-service)
                 (fold alist-delete %desktop-services
                                    '("wicd-service" "avahi-service"))))

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