Re: Knowing which services to restart

[Carlo Zancanaro]

On Wed, Jul 08 2020, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Couldn't Guix be smarter about this?  Or at least provide a less puzzling 
> message.

This was brought up when we originally implemented upgrading of services on a 
live system. The discussion about this starts in an email from Ludovic[1], and 
proceeds from there (although you'll have to skip over some other unrelated 
conversations).

There are definitely ways that things can be improved. I made an attempt at 
doing this at the end of 2018[2], but that didn't result in anything being 
merged into Guix. I don't think we've yet settled on an approach for how to 
resolve this (and the related issue of automatically upgrading services).

Carlo

[1]: https://issues.guix.info/22039#11
[2]: https://issues.guix.info/33508