On Feb 22, 2020, at 9:49 PM, Raghav Gururajan <raghavgurura...@disroot.org> wrote: > > The guix system transactions are NON-MODULAR. That is, you cannot selectively > reconfigure certain parts of the system. For example, you either reconfigure > the system as a whole (or) you do not reconfigure the system at all.
This is something that also made it a bit difficult to get started writing services: you can’t work on a service in isolation and enable it on your current system by itself, which would be nice. I ended up building an operating-system container with just that service running, which works, but increases the time taken for each code-test cycle.
