[Nix-dev] Is systemd a benefit or a liability?

[Luca Bruno]

You can already have that, see nix-rehash which translates systemd units in
supervisord: https://github.com/kiberpipa/nix-rehash

For nixos, depending on system is not really a blocker since we're able to
easily transform services.

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Nathan Bijnens <nathan at nathan.gs> wrote:

> It's not all quiet at other Distro's, some Debian developers are
> considering forking Debian if Debian switches to SystemD:
> http://debianfork.org/
>
> I like some of the features of SystemD; on the other hand it makes porting
> Nix very hard to Non-linux. I would love to have services on Mac, BSD,
> Windows in the future.
>
> I think it makes sense to have a abstraction in Nix for defining services
> and timers; by default it uses SystemD, but it shouldn't be to hard to have
> other implementations (like plain cron, ...). This would make Nix(OS) as
> future proof as possible.
>
> Nathan
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> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Alexander Zubkov <green at msu.ru> wrote:
>>
>>> And what you need from the integration of systemd with udev? What
>>> use-cases do you have for this?
>>>
>>>
>> Making services or mounts or timers depend upon the appearance or
>> disappearance of devices. I use that often to improve boot parallelism.
>> Now instead in most systems not fully integrated with systemd you have a
>> loop with udev settle waiting for a device to appear in a script. I saw
>> that especially in initrd (see nixos stage-1 or dracut without systemd).
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