On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 08:54:52PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > As a compromise, we could create a new variable %default-sysctl-settings > and add a sysctl-service-type in %base-services that uses that variable. Here is a v4 patch that implements this. I wasn't sure where to put %default-sysctl-settings, so it's in (gnu services sysctl). From my naive perspective, it seemed to me that it belongs in (gnu system), but when I exported it from there, and imported (gnu system) in (gnu services base), building Guix crashes like this: ------ [ 12%] LOAD guix/scripts/system.scm ice-9/eval.scm:293:34: error: %default-sysctl-settings: unbound variable hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (gnu system))'? make[2]: *** [Makefile:6304: make-go] Error 1 ------