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From: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
Subject: Re: [shepherd] herd status suggestion
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 19:47:57 +0000
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To: Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Court??s transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> Hello Nils,
> 
> Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> skribis:
> 
> > Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 982 bytes:
> >> 
> >> Hi Nils,
> >> 
> >> > abyayala$ sudo herd status tor
> >> > Status of tor:
> >> >   It is stopped.
> >> >   It is disabled.
> >> >   Provides (tor).
> >> >   Requires (user-processes loopback syslogd).
> >> >   Conflicts with ().
> >> >   Will be respawned.
> >> >   Last respawned on Sun Jun 10 08:08:45Z 2018.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Would it be an option to change the status output to,
> >> > if it conflicts with no other service:
> >> >
> >> >   Conflicts with no other services.
> >> >
> >> > instead of the representation of an empty list?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Related and similar: Would it be reasonable to change the output from list-style,
> > like:
> >   Depends on: (foo bar irks boot)
> >
> > to the probably tiny bit better readable:
> >
> >   Depends on: foo, bar, irks, boot
> >
> > for humans?
> 
> I agree with both proposals.  :-)
> 
> The output of ‘herd status’ is meant for humans to read, not for
> machines to process, so it makes sense to make these changes IMO.  For
> machines there’s a well-defined protocol that can be used, so we should
> do our best to make ‘herd status’ useful to humans.
> 
> If you want to give it a try, this is all happening in
> modules/shepherd/scripts/herd.scm.
> 
> Thank you,
> Ludo’.
> 

Thanks!

I will see when I find the time. If I can't work on this in time, I'll let you know.