[bug#56690] [PATCH] gnu: seatd-service-type: Should use seat group.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

muradm <mail@muradm.net> skribis:

> * gnu/services/desktop.scm (seatd-service-type): Uses "seat" group.
> [extensions]: Added account-service-type with %seatd-accounts.
> (%seatd-accounts): List with "seat" group.
> (<seatd-configuration>): [group] Change default value to "seat".
> * doc/guix.texi: Mention that users may need to become members of
> "seat" group and update default value for group field.

I guess I’m missing some context: is this fixing a bug currently
present?  (Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere!)

> +Users which are going to interact with @code{seatd} daemon while logged in

s/which/who/

> +should be added to @code{seat} group. For instance:
> +
> +@lisp
> +(user-account
> +  (name "alice")
> +  (group "users")
> +  (supplementary-groups '("wheel"   ;allow use of sudo, etc.
> +                          "seat"    ;interact with seatd
> +                          "audio"   ;sound card
> +                          "video"   ;video devices such as webcams
> +                          "cdrom")) ;the good ol' CD-ROM
> +  (comment "Bob's sister"))

The problem I see with this extra doc is that even I wouldn’t know how
to tell whether I’m going to “interact with seatd”.  Fundamentally it’s
not something I really care about.  :-)

How could we improve on this?  Like, if this is important, should it be
the default?

Thanks,
Ludo’.