bug#22039: 'guix system reconfigure' must start/restart/stop services

[Thompson, David]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> Currently ‘guix system reconfigure’ doesn’t try to dynamically update
>> the set of running services, which is a shame.
>>
>> A simple strategy would be to have it:
>>
>>   1. Stop and unregister services currently known to dmd that are
>>      missing in the new configuration.
>>
>>   2. Load and start (if they have ‘auto-start?’) services that are in
>>      the new configuration and currently unknown to dmd.
>>
>>   3. The rest is the most difficult part: dealing with services that
>>      already exist but that have changed (see below.)
>
> Commit 240b57f implements #1 and #2.

Awesome!  This is very good progress.

- Dave