[Nix-dev] The Church of Suckless NixOS is looking for followers

[Alexander V. Nikolaev]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 06:42:37PM +0100, Lukas Epple wrote:

> > - Don't PR our changes to nixos subtree (a waste of time)
> 
> I think this is childish, or even dangerous.
> 

+1

> Instead of wasting your time on a NixOS fork, just build an abstraction
> over *any* init/daemon management system (so atm systemd, openrc, runit,
> sinit, …) and get it into NixOS upstream for great good. Just looking at
> the wonderful abstraction NixOS has already given us, I am sure, that it
> is indeed possible to incorporate two very different approaches to Linx
> distribution architecture into NixOS.

I am ok with systemd myself, but I upvote init abstraction layer here,
and would like to contribute to, if it will be part of main
nixpkgs/nixos.

I think we can re-use pre-serialised `systemd.services` attrset, using
it for emitting plain sysvinit scripts, or runit scripts. And may be
later introduce new intermediate layer here.


With best regards,
Alex.