Re: Nested modify-services

[Fredrik Salomonsson]

"(" <paren@disroot.org> writes:

> Fredrik Salomonsson <plattfot@posteo.net> writes:
>> guix system: warning: exception caught while executing 'eval' on service 
>> 'root':
>> error: remove: unbound variable
>> guix system: warning: some services could not be upgraded
>> hint: To allow changes to all the system services to take effect, you will 
>> need to reboot.
>
> This appears to be unrelated to MODIFY-SERVICES. No idea what it
> actually means, though, other than the obvious 'remove' being unbound...

Yeah, it could be totally unrelated.  It is at least triggered when I
have nested modify-services.  But could just be a red herring.

>> Is nesting modify-services supported, I.e call modify-services on a list
>> that already been modified by modify-services?
>
> It has to be.  %BASE-SERVICES and %DESKTOP-SERVICES are themselves
> constructed with MODIFY-SERVICES ^_^

Ok, that's good :).  Then at least I'm not using an unsopported
workflow[0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/1172/

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