[Nix-dev] what about merging upstart-jobs and services?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Marc Weber wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:35:20PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>>  Marc Weber wrote:
>>
>>> Is anyone using services without upstart-jobs?
>>  Yes.  The Subversion server on svn.cs.uu.nl uses the services tree but 
>>  doesn't run NixOS.  And until a few weeks ago there were a bunch of other 
>>  machines as well (the UU JIRA and Twiki servers).
> 
> I see. services is basically a bunch of
> xy/bin/xy start / stop/ restart etc
> script files the way most distros are using it?

Plus lots and lots of configuration files, static data, and so on. Just have a 
look at services/subversion (the configuration for our Subversion server) - that 
stuff definitely doesn't belong in Nixpkgs.  You could argue that since it's 
somewhat site-specific it doesn't belong in the services tree either.

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