[Nix-dev] Nix init system

[Daniel Peebles]

I'd much rather the effort be invested in a service abstraction layer like
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/5246 was. Then people could stick
other init systems behind it, but we could also start taking advantage of
NixOS service definitions for completely different systems. For example,
most NixOS services today just take care of setting up daemon lifecycle and
passing config and sensible flags into daemon processes. Those could easily
be translated to `dockerTools` invocations for execution in distributed
environments (think k8s for example), but also to @LnL7's nix-darwin effort
to manage services on macOS.

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Jan Malakhovski <oxij at oxij.org> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Just FYI.
>
> At SLNOS project (see the "Church of Suckless NixOS" thread from two
> weeks ago) we consensed on replacing systemd with s6 init [1], since it
> gives the good parts of systemd (including socket activation, but done
> right) with <1% of code and without forcing anything down your throat.
>
> Read the previous thread for the rest of our agenda.
>
> I don't think we are going public with it anytime soon, though, as its
> taking tons of work, and we are just a bunch of random people with short
> attention spans.
>
> Since the announcement of SLNOS we got a bunch of interested people
> contacting us, but that produced zero new code contributions or
> actionable proposals out of the core team. Which is pretty meh.
>
> If you are interested in helping - read our agenda from the previous
> thread, take whatever you want, write a short proposal describing how
> you are going to implement it, write invite request to The Pope, we will
> invite you to our public conference, post your proposal there, we
> discuss (mostly to avoid duplicate work), you implement, we help.
>
> As I wrote before, you can ignore us and do whatever, but implementing
> things from our agenda pretty much guarantees that it will get merged
> into SLNOS with zero bike-shedding (we will massage your changes with or
> without your consent, though) and you'll have (1+n) people that would
> merge your changes with nixpkgs master from time to time (currently we
> automerge once a day, which works most of the days, and fix failed
> merges whenever we feel like it).
>
> Cheers,
>   Jan
>
> [1] http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/
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